Virtual Exhibition

In this exhibition we witness figures both terrestrial and divine — from the mythic friction of Apollo e Dafne to the cosmic momentum of Il Carro degli Dei — rendered through a painterly language that is at once archaic and spiraling toward the contemporary. Scassellati’s canvases function as repositories of memory and becoming: layered with pigment, symbol, and gesture, they invite us to contemplate the transmission of myth through the modern sensibility. With the inclusion of sculpture, this inquiry extends beyond the pictorial plane. In terracotta and glaze, myth assumes physical weight. Works such as Apollo e Dafne, Pandora, and Il Ritorno di Ulisse translate the same archetypal tensions found in the paintings into tactile form — clay shaped by hand, transformed by fire, and suspended between fragility and permanence. The sculptural presence deepens the exhibition’s meditation on embodiment, suggesting that myth is not merely remembered, but inhabited.

In Il Miele degli Abissi, light is not just an illuminant but a matrix of interior states; in Memorie Atlantidee and Broken: Il Linguaggio dei Frammenti, it becomes the very architecture of remembrance. This sense of interior illumination finds resonance in works such as Anima di Vetro and Luce Sotto Pelle, where light seems to press from within the material itself. Meanwhile, smaller works like Petali di Luce and Baci di Cenere, alongside intimate sculptural fragments, speak in whisper-like motifs, bringing intimacy into dialogue with the cosmic. Across this curated selection, Scassellati’s signature dialogue between darkness and luminous form unfolds as a meditation on presence, loss, and the creative impulse as an act of reconstruction — both of self and of human narrative. Painting and sculpture, image and object, memory and matter converge in a shared symbolic gravity, reminding us that the archetypes we inherit are also the forms we continue to shape.