Sergio Lombardo's Algorithmic Quilting at Galleria La Nuvola

Sergio Lombardo (Rome, 1939) presents a solo exhibition at Galleria La Nuvola in Rome, featuring numerous works on paper created just before the pandemic and a large composite canvas. The artist reprises his 'stochastic' method—image generation based on chance algorithms—now applying a quilting paradigm akin to patchwork and abandoning color, as in his early career. This approach intensifies his aesthetic of mathematical precision while yielding paradoxical painterly effects. The works serve as a bridge between decades of aniconic production and the unexpected hyper-expressive faces of his 2023 'Extra-humans' exhibition. A documentary by Roberto Locci, 'Sergio Lombardo psicologo dell'arte', illustrates how Lombardo's latest phase reconnects with his 1960s 'Gesti tipici' through a rejection of color and a return to the ghostly figure—now inverted: earlier works typified real presences into non-human forms, while current stochastic faces, though artificial and anti-mimetic, appear deeply human.