L.U.P.O. Lorenzelli Projects is pleased to present Cielo, fondale e quinte, a two-person exhibition by Marc Henry and Andrea Martinucci, curated by Rebis Rebis.

The exhibition explores the theatrical scene - its roles, its lighting, and its hierarchies - to examine themes such as celebrity and its reverse side, anonymity, precarity, and the ambiguity of the relationship between the individual and the audience.

In Marc Henry’s work (Munich, 1996), the theater appears fatigued, almost exhausted. The stage seems inverted, like an arena, while the actors withdraw from the scene, retreating to the audience or backstage. The spotlight illuminates yet blinds the protagonists: exposure thus becomes a paradoxical state of blindness, where success unfolds without certain witnesses.

Andrea Martinucci (Rome, 1991) responds to this absence by filling the audience with anonymous figures. These are individuals without a defined identity: wanderers emerging from hypnosis sessions, bodies shaped by external dynamics, nameless, like the spectators who observe and in turn become part of the scene. Well-dressed yet devoid of privilege, these subjects embody a new form of structural precariousness, characterized by a continuous state of transit.

The exhibition design pays homage to Carlo Scarpa’s 1954 intervention at Palazzo Abatellis. Here, the theatre curtain is reinterpreted through a chromatic study behind the ar twork: a wooden panel serves as a backdrop, on which the painting appears suspended.

In this dialogue, stage and audience merge, actors and spectators exchange roles, and the distinction between watcher and watched becomes increasingly uncertain. Courtesy, however, dictates that some applaud while others bow.