Galleria Anna Marra is pleased to present Paura della solitudine (Fear of solitude) a solo exhibition by Mirko Leuzzi, curated by Vittoria Mascellaro, that will occupy the gallery’s exhibition spaces from September 25th to October 25th 2025, tracing over a complex emotive terrain: a journey, not only physical, but also profoundly internal. The exhibition contains a selection of the artist’s works from 2024 and 2025, some created within the project Le mie mani (My hands)*, others conceived later, as a natural continuation of that project.

Leuzzi’s journey was born as a visceral and instinctive process, nourished by a figurative urgency that emerged during the pandemia and was rooted in a lacerated existential condition. Using an evocative and stratified visual language, the artist explores the dimension of affection in our existence, giving it form with vulnerable bodies, inner landscapes, symbolic animals and figures suspended between nearness and distance.

His research has now taken on a choral dimension in Le mie mani, an artistic residence which he thought up in 2023. The project was articulated in three moments, each dedicated to a specific theme, that which blocks our emotions (2023), the manipulation of affection within relationships (2024) and, finally, fear of solitude (2025). The first two editions were held in the villa, Ca’ Vamperti in the hills near Florence, while the third was held on the island of Alicudi, where the artist lived for a week together with six participants coming from various backgrounds - philosophy, literature, music, psychology and theatre - giving life, on the most remote of the Eolian Islands, to a real symposium. There the project settled in as an itinerary of disclosure: a slow emersion into fears, desires and inner conflicts that were then given form in painting.

With Paura della solitudine, Leuzzi’s practice reached a moment of emersion, in which collective experiences and individual processes blend, giving form to an open and stratified narration. If the works born within ‘Le mie mani’ document a phase of intense experimention with relationships, those created subsequently are the outcome of a more intimate and autonomous urgency. This subsequent work has furthered and amplified his research, revealing how the artist’s pictorial language continues to nourish itself from living emotive tension, capable of transforming individual experience into a form which is shared.

Leuzzi builds a visual language in which fragility, archetypes and inner visions are interwoven. His paintings present bodies that oscillate between attraction and desire, totemic animals, unmoving figures, but soaked into, while immersed in dense and vibrant spaces. The visual narration invites us to recognise the complexity of affection in relationships, unmasking the mechanisms of control and dependency which are often concealed under a sugar coating of love. The seductive aesthetics - the vivid colours and evocative compositions - amplify the tension between appearance and truth, between desire and hurt.

What makes this exhibition powerful is Leuzzi’s analyze critically the boundaries between autobiography and a collective dimension. Paura della solitudine constitutes, through painting, a common space where we can share that which is usually silenced.