Marcorossi artecontemporanea presents Urbs ex arboribus, Luca Pancrazzi’s first solo exhibition, simultaneously at its venues in Milan, Verona and Turin.

The project brings together a significant collection of recent works that highlight the variety and depth of his research: the famous “white” monochromes on raw canvas, constructed according to minimal rules and developed as a metaphor for the organic and chaotic growth of nature; the large papers, created with layers of colour and essential marks, characterised by spontaneous energy, chromatic openings and compositional freedom that welcomes accidents and errors as an integral part of the process; a series of small-format canvases and papers, a more intimate field of experimentation, which dialogues with the larger cycles and opens up new linguistic possibilities.

The title, from the Latin “a city of trees”, suggests a reversal of perspective: no longer man observing nature, but plants observing the city, judging its rhythm and artificiality. In the artist’s vision, vegetation does not abandon the urban space but, patiently, remains ready to reclaim it, affirming the vital force of the natural world in the face of architectural signs.

The project brings together a significant collection of recent works that highlight the variety and depth of his research: the famous Urbs ex arboribus thus offers a reflection on the landscape as a threshold between nature and construction, as a field of tension between memory, perception and criticism of the present. Pancrazzi’s work, which has always intertwined painting, drawing and installation, reveals itself here as an invitation to open our eyes to new models of coexistence between man and the environment.