Black is never just a colour – it is a conceptual vector, a dynamic material, an existential signifier, a semantic tool.

In modern and, later, contemporary art, Black becomes an idea—a point of departure for the zeroing of form and for conceptual critique: metaphysical extremism, radical gesture, emotional depth, reflective surface, potential space, absence/presence of light… Black and blacks as vehicles for sensations with no name, for seeing light without windows.

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

(Ad Reinhardt)

#000000, this exhibition, grows from an idea and branches across varying elevations that graze the gallery’s history, of its founder, of the critical values that sustained it, and the parameters it imposed to pattern the value of the future.

In a particularly contemporary moment—when art seems hollowed out to become a container of aspirations, political values, personal statements, economic equivalences, intercontinental exchanges—returning to the founding ethos of Studio la Città may be a radical act: countercurrent, counter-fashion, affirmative. Here, today, Black becomes a formal and ideological reset, a device to mend, erase, uncover, meditate, move beyond.

The colour #000000, the digital maximum reduction of black expressed as a hexadecimal code, appears in the RGB system as the absolute absence of Red, Green, and Blue (0, 0, 0). Conceptually, it symbolizes the “zero of form” theorized by Malevich and serves as both limit point and point of origin for a color gradient—a progressive, incremental transition across tones.