From March 26 to April 20, 2026, Galleria Vik Milano presents Sempreverde (Evergreen), a solo exhibition by GGT, the acronym and artistic name of Milanese artist Gigi Tarantola, known for his essential, ironic, and instantly recognizable visual language. Through a new series of works gathered under the title Evergreen, GGT develops a light yet incisive reflection on central issues of the present: from the joyful celebration of spring and the cyclical renewal of nature to the relationship between humans and the environment, from ecological responsibility and climate change to the possibility for art to escape the ephemeral logic of trends and movements.

His amusing and enigmatic shadow-characters - universal figures devoid of ethnic or gender connotations - inhabit synthetic and suspended scenarios where natural elements and symbolic forms intertwine in a visual balance of striking immediacy. With just a few sharp lines and primary colors, the artist constructs images that are accessible to everyone yet capable of opening up multiple layers of interpretation: a playful and pop first impression, followed by a subtler reflection on the contemporary condition.

As curator Alessandro Riva observes, “with his apparently simple, ironic, and immediate style - accessible to anyone yet layered with multiple levels of meaning - the artist addresses in this exhibition one of the key themes of our time: the relationship with nature and the awareness of climate change. His unmistakable shadow-characters seem to play with vegetal elements and with the landscape, eventually becoming an integral part of it, in a surprising interplay between form, environment, and visual memory. Oscillating between cartoon imagery, contemporary design, and archaic echoes of the silhouettes found in cave paintings, the artist makes a clear and radical conceptual leap: that of a language capable of remaining current across eras, trends, and generations. In this sense, GGT truly proves to be ‘evergreen’: not only in his homage to nature and to the season of rebirth – spring - which becomes the symbol of a renewed ethical awareness toward environmental issues, but also in his ability to create an iconic sign that withstands time, escaping the flow of trends and movements while continuing to speak to the present with freshness, intelligence, and irony.”

An independent artist and outsider to the more institutional dynamics of the art system, GGT has, over the years, built a coherent path grounded in expressive freedom and accessibility. His works - paintings, animations, objects, prints, and visual interventions of various kinds across a wide range of media - stand out for their extreme formal synthesis, which becomes a tool for communicating complex themes with immediacy and lightness. As the artist himself states, “I like to be accessible to anyone - from children to adults to the elderly: I look for images that speak immediately, but that can also offer different levels of interpretation to those who choose to linger longer.”

Aware of an increasingly rapid visual consumption, GGT constructs his language starting from a minimal time of perception. “Today, when facing any image, the threshold of attention often lasts only three seconds: that is why I have chosen to place myself at the same level as the viewer. Many of my works arise from immediate intuitions, conceived to strike within those three seconds, yet they remain open to a slower gaze and to a deeper reading of all their meanings.”

Beyond their visual immediacy, however, GGT’s work is permeated by a constant ethical tension: behind the apparent lightness of the sign, his images address themes ranging from environmental awareness to individual and collective responsibility, extending to a broader idea of shared responsibility, social cohesion, and awareness of the present. With Evergreen, GGT invites the public to pause - even if only for a few moments - before the work, allowing a broader reflection on the fate of humankind and the planet to emerge behind the apparent lightness of the image.