Patrick Tuttofuoco's Neon Lightning Bolt Explores Time at BASE Florence

Patrick Tuttofuoco (born 1974 in Milan) presents a solo exhibition at BASE in Florence, centering on a neon sculpture that reimagines a lightning bolt as a device to freeze time. Drawing from Aristotle's definition of time as the measure of motion and updating it with contemporary physics, the artist investigates time as both a physical and ontological phenomenon. The neon piece, with its powerful emotional and aesthetic charge, symbolizes how psychological time deepens as physical time loses meaning. Tuttofuoco suggests that individuals now generate time through memory, restarting or erasing it, and that art—existing outside time—serves as a magnifying lens to analyze this fascinating process. The exhibition is reviewed by Niccolò Lucarelli.