Speculum Exhibition at Spazio Urano in Rome

The group exhibition 'Speculum' at Spazio Urano in Rome features works by Emiliano Alfonsi, Saturno Buttò, Francesco Campese, Antonio Finelli, and Daria Palotti. The show explores painting and sculpture as a mirror-like investigation, echoing 20th-century art from the Pre-Raphaelites to Symbolist aesthetic-philosophical issues. Alfonsi's contemporary icons use symbols as subterranean alchemy; Buttò's dark paintings evoke Sadean literature and the hallucinated seduction of Odilon Redon and Franz von Stuck. Campese's mysterious, unsettling landscapes are built from quattrocento spatial awareness; Finelli's hyperrealist, disquieting faces resemble time-worn anonymous cemetery portraits. Palotti's sculptures synthesize the disturbing, symbolic, and transcendental aspects of the feminine, mirroring a profound reality destined to dissipate in life's existence.