Antonio Scaccabarozzi. Diafanés | Courtesy Museo Fortuny, Venice

At Museo Fortuny, Antonio Scaccabarozzi. Diafanés brings into focus one of the most rigorous strands of postwar Italian art. The exhibition revolves around the notion of the diaphanous, understood not merely as an optical quality but as a way of redefining the relationship between artwork, space and perception. Since the 1970s, Scaccabarozzi has worked with industrial materials such as polyethylene and acetate sheets. These light, often nearly immaterial surfaces receive color without fully containing it. Painting no longer occupies a fixed support, it extends into space and alters the viewer’s experience of the surrounding environment. Transparency becomes a threshold, a point of transition between what is seen and what remains elusive. The installation takes advantage of the Venetian palazzo’s architecture, where natural light and layered interiors intensify the unstable character of the works. The dialogue with Mariano Fortuny is not based on formal quotation but on a shared attention to material, light and experimentation. In this setting, Venice functions as more than a backdrop. The city’s own condition, suspended between water and stone, resonates with Scaccabarozzi’s fragile structures. The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider painting not as a closed object but as a field to be crossed.

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