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  • Forme d’Arte

    FORME D’ARTE

    On this occasion I will take part in the group exhibition “Forme d’Arte – Sculpture & Painting”, hosted at the Sala del San Leone in the heart of Pietrasanta. The exhibition brings different artistic languages into dialogue— from sculpture to painting—united by the desire to portray contemporary life through material, light, and each artist’s personal sensitivity.

    Pietrasanta has long been a symbolic place for art: a crossroads of marble, foundries, artisan workshops and galleries, it has welcomed and inspired generations of artists, building over time an international reputation as an open-air creative laboratory. The initiative is organized by Promo-Terr and is held under the patronage of the Municipality of Pietrasanta. I will present four oil-on-canvas works: “Dopo la notte, il lavoro non è ancora finito” (2024), “I guerrieri della luce” (2024), “Il Nonno e il Nipotino” (2025) and “Rifrazione” (2025).

    TALK AND DEBATE:
    ETHICAL USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PAINTING

    On January 24th at 5:00 PM, at the exhibition venue and in agreement with the organizers, I have scheduled a talk and a closing debate on this topic.

    The goal is to demonstrate how AI can enter the painting process without distorting authorship and what rules to adopt out of respect for the public, colleagues, and the market.

    In some of my works, I have used AI to generate a basis for study or to explore compositional solutions before painting; painting is all about execution, correction, material, and choice.

    During my talk, I will refer to the painting on display, “Grandfather and Grandson.” This painting was born from a dream I was half asleep. The image was surprisingly clear: not a vague idea, but a precise scene, with a certain light and a certain gesture. I described that vision in detail and used artificial intelligence as a support tool during the study phase: to explore some variations of composition and atmosphere, not to “paint the painting for me.” The painting itself was then an entirely manual process: color choices, corrections, material, and above all the attempt to preserve the original emotion of the dream. For me, the ethical use lies here: AI as a rapid laboratory to test possibilities, while maintaining transparency and accountability for the final work.

    Event Information

    Dates: From January 10 to February 4, 2026, daily from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (closed on Mondays), with the opening on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 pm.

    Event Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Where: Sala del San Leone – Pietrasanta – Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 70, 55045 Pietrasanta

  • Desiderium

    DESIDERIUM

    There is an ancient word, desiderium, which in Latin denotes the aching absence of something loved and far away. Yet within that word also lives a gaze turned skyward, searching for missing stars, for possibilities still unseen.
    DESIDERIUM is an exhibition that explores desire as a creative force, as an impulse toward what is not there—or not there yet.
    The works selected will chart emotional maps: they will press toward an inner elsewhere, oscillating between nostalgia and visionary tension.
    Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance—the admitted art forms—become instruments for probing absence, but also for evoking new bearings. The missing stars become symbols of what our time lacks: meaning, care, beauty.
    Desire as memory, as vision, as the language of the body, of matter, of light. From it emerge works that offer no answers, but questions: intimate, vertiginous, necessary.
    “Desiderium” is thus a constellation of fertile absences, an exhibition space that becomes an interstice between the real and the hypothetical.
    An invitation to desire without measure.
    And never to stop searching the sky.

    Event information

    Date: January 31st to February 7th, 2026, with inauguration on Saturday, January 31st at 6:00 PM

    Event Curator: Gina Affinito

    Where: Venezia – Palazzo Pisani Revedin – Fondamenta Narisi, 4013A, 30124 Venezia VE

  • Agenda degli Artisti – Exhibition

    MOSTRA AGENDA DEGLI ARTISTI 2026

    is the new collective exhibition bringing colour and contemporary visions to the historic Libreria Bocca in Milan, under the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the city’s “drawing room” just a few steps from the Duomo. Founded in 1775 and recognised as one of the oldest and most prestigious bookshops in Italy, Bocca is a Historic Shop, a Historic Venue of the Lombardy Region and a “Place of the Heart” of the FAI, a reference point for lovers of books, art and culture.(Il Giorno)

    The exhibition, curated by Simona Heart, will feature a dialogue between the works of several artists in a unique space, where floor-to-ceiling shelves and traces of publishing history become the backdrop to contemporary painting.

    Among the works on display will be the painting by GianPaolo Macario, Come un fremito felino, selected and published in the Agenda degli Artisti, which invites visitors to dwell on a vibrant instant of feline energy and sensitivity in the beating heart of Milan.

    Event Information

    Date: January 11-24, 2026, with opening on Sunday, January 11, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

    Where: Bocca Bookshop, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (Duomo), Milan

    Below the calendar page with the publication of the work:

  • Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026

    Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026

    Rooted in 1940, the Atlas of Contemporary Art is the longest-running Italian art yearbook and a touchstone for scholars, gallerists, and collectors.

    Recognized by the Senate of the Republic as an “instrument for promoting Italian culture worldwide,” it has cemented a historic role in mapping modern and contemporary art.

    Unique in its kind, it is featured at major international events: MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Art Basel Miami, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Giunti stand), and the Venice Biennale (Book Pavilion at the Giardini).

    The next edition, in 2026—curated by Stefania Pieralice (Volume Curator) and Gianni Dunil (Editor-in-Chief)—will be presented at MoMA by renowned art critic Daniele Radini Tedeschi, further strengthening dialogue with global institutions. Published and distributed by Giunti, the Atlas of Contemporary Art reaches readers and industry professionals extensively.

    Event information

    Atlande Arte Contemporanea – Depliant 2025Download

  • Art Exchange: America & Italy Vibo Valentia

    Art Exchange: America & Italy – A Cultural Bridge Between Calabria and the United States

    From August 6 to 24, 2025, the elegant halls of Palazzo Gagliardi in Vibo Valentia will host the international group exhibition “Art Exchange: America & Italy”, promoted by the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation. After its successful debut in New York at the Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, the event now arrives in Italy as a vibrant cultural exchange between two artistic worlds: Italian and American.

    The initiative aims to foster a visual and creative dialogue between Calabria and the United States, bringing together Italian and American artists through diverse expressive languages united by shared values and universal perspectives. As Giuseppe Lombardi, Vice President of the cultural association Rambaldi Promotion, stated, the exhibition “highlights art as a universal language capable of transcending borders and promoting mutual understanding.”

    Among the featured works are pieces ranging from tradition to innovation, showcasing a wide variety of styles, techniques, and artistic approaches. The exhibition as a whole invites visitors to reflect on the power of art as a tool for intercultural connection and as a vehicle for shared creativity..

    Event Information

    Date: From July 17 to August 24, 2025, with opening on Thursday, July 17 at 5:00 PM

    Where: Palazzo Gagliardi – Corso Umberto I, 121, 89900 Vibo Valentia VV

    Exhibition Curator: Daniela Rambaldi

    The Calabrian press and television gave extensive coverage to the event, which was covered and described on numerous occasions, often highlighting my painting of New York.

    PrimaStampa – Articolo 0725Download
    Informazione_it Articolo America_Italy Art Exchange Vibo ValentiaDownload

  • The Grandfather and the Little Grandson

    I resume: A crouched child covers his head with both hands. He opens one eye and looks around, bewildered, at a world lashed by the wind. The grandfather hugs him, wraps him up warmly. He takes his tiny hand and whispers, “don’t worry,” before accompanying him outside on one of the very first walks of his life.

    TITLE:   

    The Grandfather and the Little Grandson

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    January 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250101

    NOTES:

    A fantasy subject, painted with a brush.

    AI used exclusively for preliminary studies; final work is handcrafted.
    When I use AI, I treat it like a sketching lab. For example, here I gave a precise brief—subject, lighting, materials, even a lens effect—and then corrected the output with specific indications (wind direction, shape of the peak). AI doesn’t decide: it speeds up the study phase. The ethics lie in two things: not opaquely copying other people’s material and honestly declaring that it is a design tool, while the final work (and the artistic choices) remain mine.

  • The World in an Instant

    First Solo Exhibition
    by GPaolo Macario

    Organized by Promo.terr within the exhibition spaces of the Grand Hotel Guinigi in Lucca.

    Twelve selected works presented to the public for a full month.

    From June 9th to July 9th, 2025

    Grand Hotel Guinigi – Lucca

    Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Grand hotel Guinigi – Lucca

    GianPaolo Macario presents “The World in an Instant”, an exhibition where the Lombard artist captures and freezes on canvas a variety of life’s images that surround him — a kaleidoscope of moments in which Macario seizes the fleeting instant of a cat, a landscape, a woman, or a memory by the sea.

    The exhibition is part of the “Art Path” curated by Promo-Terr Association, offering guests a true artistic tour inside the hotel — starting from the lobby and leading visitors floor by floor to discover the works on display.

    La Gazzetta di Lucca – Il mondo in un IstanteDownload

  • Barcelona Art Exibition

    Barcelona – Gallery C6

    A major group exhibition of artists from different European countries, Gracia, Italy, Spain and France. The exhibition, organized by ROI Moving Art was more than a simple showcase: it was a dynamic platform for interaction and growth, attracting a wide range of professionals and enthusiasts from the artistic community to a venue in the historic center of Barcelona, ​​near the Cathedral.

    Event information

    Period: From May 29th to June 3rd 2025, with inauguration on Thursday May 29th at 17:00

    Where: Gallery C6 – Carrer de l’Hostal d’en Sol, 7, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, ​​Spain

    Exhibition curator: Eleni Eirini Xenaki

    Below you can consult the catalog:

    RoiMoving Art Barcelona 2025 – Pagine CatalogoDownload

  • The Missing Point

    In the beginning, there was the line. Infinite, unchanging, luminous. It stretched silently from past eternity into the future, with no beginning and no end — like a timeless breath. It was true life, eternal life. Upon this line, suspended beyond the tangible, men and women walked in harmony with the divine order. They moved along the upper part of the line, wrapped in serene light, in an Eden where each step was understanding, presence, peace.

    But the perfection of the line concealed a secret.

    Along its perfect and linear course, a point was missing. A tiny absence, almost imperceptible — a void of infinitesimal size, as a mathematician might say: something that takes up no space, and yet it is there. An opening.

    And so, unaware, men and women, one by one, stumble upon that point. And fall.

    They fall beneath the line.

    They awaken in the earthly life — a world that appears fluid, unstable, ever-changing. Shapes shift, truth blurs, all previous reference points dissolve. Humanity forgets the line, and the light it carried. The memory of the eternal fades into the fog of the material experience.

    In the earthly dimension, humans struggle. They believe this is the only life. They seek security, they build, they hoard — sometimes at the expense of others. They cry out in loss, fight in fear, and withdraw in confusion. Suffering embraces them, and time urges them on.

    Yet not all surrender.

    Some, even immersed in the liquid realm of earthly life, do not fully forget what they no longer know. Some love. Some care. Some help their companions to rise, to walk, to search. Some look upward, without knowing why, and move toward the light.

    And then, one day, the point returns.

    The missing point appears again — but now not as a fall, but as a passage. It is death, yes, but not an end. It is the breach that allows one to rise again. The slender opening connecting the lower world to the higher one. And then, if the human heart has remained open, if the soul still listens, they can ascend.

    They emerge above the line once more.

    And now they are not the same. They remember. They recognize. They are in tune again with the Divine, reconnected to the infinite from which they came. Life resumes its eternal flow — but this time, in fullness. The being is restored in serenity, in wholeness, in truth.

    And the painting falls silent, but it tells all.

    TITLE:   

    The Missing Point

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    90 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    May 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250501

    NOTES:

    Fictional subject, entirely made with a spatula

  • Time has made them accomplices and stronger

    Among the silent mountains of Grigna, a white writing — LOVE — becomes sculpture and refuge. She, lying lightly on that word, smiles with her head resting on the one she has chosen every day.

    Time has made them accomplices, stronger, more real. In that embrace placed on the landscape, a love is celebrated that does not fade, but is nourished by the seasons lived together, like the wind that caresses the peaks and tells eternal stories.

    TITLE:   

    Time has made them accomplices and stronger

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    70 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    February 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250201

    NOTES:

    Subject for photography, made entirely with a spatula

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