Vistamare is pleased to present “The Essence of Light: Dialogs between Luisa Lambri and Ettore Spalletti”, an exhibition by Luisa Lambri in which the artist engages in an ideal dialog with few works by Ettore Spalletti.
Lambri’s photographic works often explore interiors, capturing the subtle interplay of light and structure in some of the seminal moments in the history of modern art and architecture, emphasizing the ephemeral and transient nature of our perception. Her artistic research reflects on the sensitivity of space towards light and rethinks historical experiences such as those of Lucio Fontana and Minimalism, which have profoundly redefined the boundaries between painting and sculpture, two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, surface and perception.
On this occasion, Luisa Lambri initiates a dialog that transcends time with the serene color compositions of Ettore Spalletti, an artist who was able to capture the meditative dimension of colors and shapes and consistently sought the tension between light and space, between human experience and abstraction. Though distinct in their mediums and methods, Luisa Lambri’s and Ettore Spalletti’s artistic practices both reveal a contemplative conception and an aspiration towards purity, transforming formality into an inner experience.
Luisa Lambri (b. 1969, Como) lives and works in Milan. Her work has been recently exhibited at the Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (2024), the Rome Quadriennale (2020 and 2005), the Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2018), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2010), and the Venice Biennale (Architecture, 2010 and 2004, and Art 2003 and 1999). Her work has also been included in solo exhibitions at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2021), the Met Breuer, New York (2017), the Isabella Stewart-Gardner Museum, Boston (2012), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), the Baltimore Museum of Art (2007), the Menil Collection, Houston (2004), and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2000). Lambri’s work is included in several public collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the Rose Art Museum, Waltham.