Valentin Just and Niklas Lichti at Galleria Emanuel Layr, Rome

Galleria Emanuel Layr in Rome presents a dual exhibition featuring German artists Valentin Just and Niklas Lichti. Just's pencil drawings depict anonymous crowds where individuality dissolves into facial stereotypes and hybrid forms, blending past and present, stillness and gesture. His works are described as "work in progress on paper," with visible traces of erasures, cutouts, and overlays. Lichti, in contrast, creates drawings that are incised and printed onto glass, resulting in unique final pieces. His imagery—embraces, bites, chameleonic feats, a handcuffed hand raising victory fingers—evokes ambiguity and disorientation. The exhibition was reviewed by Raffaele Orlando, an archaeologist and official at the Italian Ministry of Culture who works at the Reggia di Caserta.