FUORI DAI CONFINI DELLA REALTÀ Tra Klee, Chagall e Picasso

Domodossola 31.07.25 - 11.01.26

Musei Civici G.G.Galletti

Palazzo San Francesco

The collaboration between LightScene Studio and outstanding Partners continues through cross-disciplinary initiatives and vibrant laboratories of creative exchange. Our team of lighting designers curated the dedicated lighting for the exhibition “Fuori dai confini della realtà”, held in the halls of the G.G. Galletti Civic Museums in Domodossola and promoted by the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan.

Domodossola was undoubtedly the ideal venue for this exhibition, situated both geographically and philosophically between Italy and Switzerland — two key countries in the lives and stories of the artists featured. Curated by Antonio D’Amico, with the collaboration of Stefano Papetti and Federico Troletti, the exhibition unfolds as a vibrant journey along the literal and metaphorical border between Italy and Switzerland, a crossroads for artists such as Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Fausto Melotti, Osvaldo Licini, and Gastone Novelli. The curators sought to bring together the collective imagination of these artists, presenting a reflection on the new artistic scenarios explored between the two World Wars and giving form — just as the title suggests — to the ambition of breaking free from reality to rediscover a spiritual, liberating, and imaginary dimension.

The exhibition showcases a selection of over forty works by 20th-century masters, delving into the boundaries between real and unreal, visible and invisible, presenting imaginary and symbolic worlds often inspired by myth and religion. Walking beneath the Renaissance arches of Palazzo San Francesco, visitors are drawn into the colorful reflections of Egidio Costantini’s blue glass ferrets, enhanced by almost theatrical lighting. The gaze softens upon encountering the ethereal tones of Paul Klee’s canvases, gently illuminated by projectors. The mind is freed and carried beyond reality as it wanders through the details of Marc Chagall’s works.

At the end of the journey, enriched by such beauty, one feels a little closer to the artists on display — ready to liberate images from the everyday meanings of reality and restore them to a state of purity.

By the end of the visit, the exhibition’s dual objective becomes clear: to reflect on the birth of new artistic forms that emerged in the 20th century — immersed in imagination, fantasy, and dreams — and, at the same time, to cast a thought toward the future and how the irrational and the liberation of imagery may continue to shape our understanding of the world and contemporary culture.