10 July - 18 September 2025
WeGil, Rome

Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella, Italy in 1933. He began exhibiting in 1955 and in 1960 held his first solo exhibition at the Galatea Gallery in Turin. His first early work is characterized by his exploration of self-portraiture. From 1961 to 1962 he created the Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings), which incorporate the viewer’s presence and the real dimension of time into the work. These paintings also reverse the Renaissance perspective, which was concluded by the avant-gardes of the 20th century. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international recognition and success. As a result, he held solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries and museums in Europe and the United States as early as the 1960s. The Quadri specchianti formed the basis of his subsequent artistic production and theoretical reflection.

Between 1965 and 1966, Pistoletto produced a series of works titled Oggetti in meno (Minus Objects), which are considered fundamental to the emergence of Arte Povera, an artistic movement of which he is the founder and leading figure. Beginning in 1967, he staged actions outside of traditional exhibition spaces that represented the first manifestations of the “creative collaboration” he would develop over the following decades. This collaboration brought together artists from different disciplines and increasingly broad sectors of society. In the early 1980s, he created a series of sculptures from rigid polyurethane that were later recreated in marble for his 1984 solo exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence. From 1985 to 1989, he created a series of “dark” volumes called Art of Squalor.

During the 1990s, with Progetto Arte and the creation in Biella of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and the University of Ideas, he put art in active relationship with the different spheres of the social fabric in order to inspire and produce a responsible transformation of society. In 2003, he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. The following year, the University of Turin awarded him an honorary degree in political science. During this time, the artist announced the latest phase of his work, called Terzo Paradiso (Third Paradise).

Erica Tamborini (Milan, 1988) has been pursuing an innovative, open project oriented toward dialogue, contamination, and the translation of cultural situations and realities through gesture, action, and artistic design. This project is aimed at affirming a new idea of art. She involves institutions and territorial entities in her artistic and cultural proposals, which are real artistic events that she creates by putting herself at stake personally and using herself as her own instrument of expression. They include: Energy of Space, 2019, a project focused on the coincidence of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon and the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci carried out at the Milan Malpensa Airport for SEA s.p.a under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency and the City of Milan. This project was awarded the Arte, Scienza e Coscienza Prize by the Infinity Foundation (Monaco). Ritorno a Brera (2018) is a trilogy of events sponsored by MiBACT and Regione Lombardia. The events explore the relationship between performance and image and involve the Milanese neighborhood, specifically the Comando Militare Esercito Lombardia, the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, and the Piero Manzoni Studio. In 2016, for the “C. Cattaneo e G. Preti” Center of the University of Insubria in Varese, she carried out a project dedicated to the emancipatory value of art and culture by donating to the institution a stone work installed at the Aula Magna. She also participated in the Florentine international forum Unity in Diversity in 2015 with a performance and sculptural installation now on display in the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. She was invited to participate in the ninth edition of the New Florence Biennale in 2013. Her work is included in private and museum collections in Italy, including the Plastic Art Museum in Castiglione Olona (VA), as well as internationally, including Hong Kong. She has collaborated with numerous artists across different art forms to conceive and curate specific artistic and cultural enhancement projects. Currently, she is exploring the relationship between art and enterprise as an innovative space for art. 

Pseudonym of Carmelo Forzano, born in Genoa in 1960, is an Italian television director and author. After a career made up of many trades besides that of film maker and director, he was noticed by Claudio Baglioni in the 1990s for producing the video clip (directed by Giacomo De Simone) of Amore dannato, for his ex-wife Paola Massari. Initially, Baglioni wanted him to direct his videos, beginning with Bolero, and later entrusted him with directing his concerts on television. At the same time he works for Mediaset: Verissimo and Real TV - Eroi per caso. In 2000, he directed the first edition of Giorgio Panariello's show Torno sabato, Fabio Fazio's Ultimo Valzer, Fiorello's four editions of Stasera pago io, then returned to Mediaset with Paolo Bonolis and again to Rai with Gianni Morandi and Vincenzo Salemme. He also lived a cinematic interlude in 2003, directing 23, a comedy with the Ditelo voi. From 2005 to 2016 he directed the Rai 3 program Che tempo che fa again with Fazio. In 2006 he made his stage directing debut at Teatro Sistina with the musical comedy Squali - Una storia vera un sogno from an idea by Alberto Luca Recchi, written with Paola Conte and starring Alberto Luca Recchi with Giulia Ottonello, Carlo Ragone and Beatrice Luzzi. In 2019, he wrote (with Lorena Guglielmucci and Gianni Salvioni) and staged the play L'Angelo Bugiardo dedicated to Lucio Dalla, which debuted at the Teatro Comunale in Cagli and was subsequently taken on tour (suspended after the first dates due to limitations caused by Covid-19). He also occasionally devotes himself to university seminars in television directing. He is director of the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018 and 2019 editions of the Sanremo Festival. Also for Fazio, he oversaw the direction of Vieni via con me on Rai 3 in 2010 and Quello che (non) ho on LA7 in 2012. He directed the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, held May 10-14, 2022 at the PalaOlimpico in Turin, together with Cristian Biondani. For Relazionésimo he created the installation Dall’Eden al deserto in 2022.

Angelo Bonello was born in Turin in 1971. He has been interested in painting and sculpture since childhood under the guidance of impressionist artist Sergio Manfredi. Later he met artist Antonio Carena from whom he learned abstract and conceptual arts and then landed in Techno-Art with artist Piero Gilardi. 

In the 1990s he embarked on a long journey of research in nature, cultures and art. While studying, he explored forests, climbed mountain ranges, and discovered and experienced the world's great cities such as Barcelona, Paris, Beijing, Bogota, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, and many others. He takes a parallel interest in the visual arts with a focus on new performance and multimedia trends and in sports, contemporary circus, mountaineering and aerial disciplines. Angelo Bonello conceives urban space as a large stage that hosts environmental performances and light installations that fit perfectly into the landscape, bringing Land Art to a dreamlike plane. He elaborates a visual sensibility and a stylistic figure based on the dimensional distortion of the scenic space and the landscape. A stage that in addition to the horizontal plane also includes aerial projection. 

In 1997 he settled in Rome where he met Alberta Nunziante and together they founded Kitonb Project. He continues to explore the wildest corners of the world, but Rome is the place where he thinks and creates more than fifty projects, carried out in forty countries around the world. Since 2014 he has also been very active in television as Artistic Director of Italia's Got Talent, Telethon, and The Voice, all very successful programs.

Jacopo Gonzato, a visionary architect born in 1988 in Vicenza, Italy, stands out for his revolutionary approach in the field of sound design. With prestigious academic training from IUAV in Venice and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Gonzato holds a double degree that blends different approaches and methods. His professional career is characterized by constant experimental research, starting from the perfection of platonic solids to explore new frontiers in harmonic forms. His project “Geometries of Sound” represents the culmination of this research, aiming to reformulate the rules of sound diffusion. 

Animated by the motto “Traditio, Innovatio, Proportio,” Gonzato has dedicated years of experimentation and prototyping since 2012 to develop a holistic vision that integrates design, philosophy, materials and technology. This structured vision is the foundation for attracting collaborations, managing resources, and advancing purposefully toward set goals. His aspiration is not only to innovate, but to establish a new paradigm in sound design through a path that is both experimental and rooted in proportion and balance. 

His collaboration with Galleria Rossana Orlandi and participation in international exhibitions such as NOMAD have further established his reputation in the global design scene, demonstrating his ability to merge art and design in a creative dialogue that transcends traditional boundaries.

Matteo Riva is a multidisciplinary information designer and illustrator with a strong attention to detail. After graduating from the Politecnico di Milano, he began numerous collaborations mainly focused on visual representation, such as infographics and maps. He currently works as a designer for magazines, newspapers, agencies, and studios, and also serves as art director and visual journalist for VITA, the Italian magazine dedicated to the non-profit sector.

He is a professor of Information Design at the Politecnico di Torino. Over the past eight years, he has taught illustration and visual design at IED Turin, visual journalism at LUMSA University in Rome, and data visualization at IULM University in Milan. He has also worked as a teaching assistant in urban studies at the Politecnico di Milano, and has taught at the University of Florence (UNIFI) and the International School of Comics in Padua.

Among his main clients are: Axel Springer, Chronicle Books, Corriere della Sera, Fast Company, La Repubblica, Mondadori, Monocle, Slow Food Editore, and Wired.