11 March – 9 May 2026
Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art Gallery
Via Monte di Pietà 1 A Milan
Opening 11 March, 18:00/21:00
After Cosenza (Museo dei Bretti e degli Enotri), Rome (Villa Altieri – Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale) and Matera (Musma) A-Head Project with artist Angelo Gallo lands in Milan at Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte contemporanea with the exhibition “Libera circolazione entro fragili confini”.
From 11 March to 9 May 2026, the gallery presents Angelo Gallo ‘s first solo exhibition in Milan. The project, curated by Raffaella De Chirico, is part of the exhibition path promoted and supported by A-Head Project of Angelo Azzurro Onlus, a reality committed to the dialogue between contemporary art and mental health, with the aim of contrasting stigma and favouring processes of awareness and rehabilitation through art.
The exhibition takes the form of a unitary traversal of Gallo’s research: not a chronological sequence of works, but a coherent organism in which works born at different times resonate around the themes of the body, memory, sensitivity and inner transformation.
The exhibition project is developed in two communicating rooms, conceived as complementary parts of a single perceptive experience. The path starts from the origin of the fracture and progressively opens up to a dimension of listening, layering and waiting, without solution of continuity.
The first room introduces the original core of the Anatomie Forzate research . In the centre is the chalcography Bird without wings #020072, the founding work of the series, which returns the image of a body deprived of the possibility of flight and becomes the conceptual matrix of the entire project. On a small plinth, a display case holds a letter from the Random Recipient project , an intervention that activates a processual and relational dimension central to the artist’s practice. In the days preceding the inauguration, the project will be diffused in the urban space of Milan through a path of delivery and dispersion of the letters; one of them will remain in the gallery as a physical trace of an action that took place in time and space in the city.
The environment is completed by the sound painting Memoria, belonging to the series Anatomie Sensibili, which introduces sound as an immaterial and perceptive element, creating a sensitive bridge with the next room.
The second room houses the beating heart of the exhibition. Here the dialogue between Anatomie Forzate and Anatomie Sensibili becomes more articulated and engaging. At the centre of the space is the interactive installation Waiting, which investigates the feeling of waiting as an existential condition: a suspended time in which listening becomes a form of presence and relationship. The work directly involves the public, transforming waiting into a shared and physically perceptible experience.
Around this nucleus, four chalcographies belonging to the second series of the Anatomie Forzate (Forced Anatomies) are presented , created through etching, aquatint and photogravure. Bony anatomies of wingless birds are superimposed on female bodies, generating images of strong visual and emotional tension. In dialogue with each work, four light paintings, made from the transparencies used for the photogravures, make the process of image construction visible, shifting the focus from the final result to the stratification that generated it. Light thus becomes an instrument of analysis, revealing the time, fragility and transformation inherent in art making.
Taken as a whole, Free Movement within Fragile Boundaries constructs a coherent path through origin, memory, expectation and sensitivity. Chalcographies, interactive installations, sound works and light devices dialogue with each other in an installation conceived as a living organism in continuous becoming. The body, time and listening emerge as instruments of investigation and knowledge, inviting the visitor to an experience that goes beyond the visual dimension to become profoundly perceptive.
The exhibition will remain open until 9 May 2026, passing through two central moments of Milan’s spring – Art Week and Design Week – and confirming the commitment of Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea and A-Head Project in supporting artistic practices capable of combining research, sensitivity and cultural responsibility.
