Painting · Photography · Film · Writing
Identity, humanity, the mental condition, memory and technology run through Massimo Scognamiglio’s work. These paths connect artworks, exhibitions, articles and books: begin with a question and follow it through different media.
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Cycle of Rooms interiors, the torn faces of Gli Strappi and reflections on art and mental health connect vulnerability, space and perception.
Tre Uomini takes a question about human nature and everyday evil into fiction.
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Portraiture as encounter, fashion as public image, the body as a site of transformation. Mindful Portraits and Punk Aristocracy question what we show and what remains invisible.
Riders on the Storm explores identity, visibility and urban life among Rome’s Bangladeshi delivery riders.
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Terra!, the Aquarius and Where is the future? at MACRO Asilo follow people beyond the crossing. The sea, arrival and finding a home become questions of dignity and the future.
In the noir Riders on the Storm, a city within Rome finds a voice. It is fiction, while Terra! grows from documentary experience.
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From digital work in the 1990s to AI films: the relationship between humans and machines runs through images, surveillance, language and freedom.
Cronache al di là del tempo imagines artificial intelligences governing language. SMELL returns to the birth of the web and theories of AI.
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Rooms hold traces; stories cross eras. Memory, loss and possible futures connect painting with science fiction and coming-of-age narratives.
L’Orfano di Keplero begins with adolescent friendship and an extraterrestrial mystery in the Maremma in 1980.
Explore the book →Knowing the themes helps you choose a work to live with. Catalogue records show confirmed prices, media and availability; Invest in Art gathers the exhibition history and sources.
View available works →In the books, those questions become characters, time and story. Choose philosophical science fiction, coming-of-age, noir and fiction about everyday evil.
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