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Various contemporary Contemporary art exhibitions have opened across Italy, focusing on Italy continue to explore diverse themes themes, ranging from metaphysical expression and regional folklore to the complex relationship between nature humanity and culture. Initial exhibitions include the natural environment. In Trento, Monia Ben Hamouda’s installation ‘Aniconism as Figuration Urgency’ in Trento, which uses sand, pigments, at the Centrale Fies gallery utilizes a historic 1911 hydroelectric plant as a backdrop. The installation features sand mixed with natural pigments and spices, such as turmeric, alongside laser-cut iron plates to explore form and sign. that evoke Arabic calligraphy. In Stellata, Marcello Carrà’s ‘Dispersi sulla spiaggia’ utilizes at the Rocca Possente uses charcoal works to examine human fragility and memory. Recent openings continue to emphasize environmental connections. In Bolzano, the ‘INTRECCI – VERFLECHTUNGEN’ exhibition at the Galleria dell’Associazione degli Artisti della Provincia di Bolzano features Thea Unteregger and Francesca Tomasi. The project examines links between nature, culture, fragility, memory, and community, with Tomasi using essential structures to evoke memory metamorphosis. Environmental and Unteregger employing collages to highlight local traditions. ecological themes remain prominent. In San Benedetto Po, Giovanna Gazzi’s ‘Ramo Radice Ruvido’ at the Abbazia Benedettina del Polirone presents 22 ceramic sculptures inspired by the vegetation and landscape of the Po Valley, reinterpreting elements like trunks and roots. Further explorations of the human-nature relationship are occurring in Rome and Cagliari. At Rome’s Antigallery, Rome, the Antigallery’s collective photography exhibition exhibition, ‘I think having land and not ruining… Avere la terra e non rovinarla’ rovinarla’, prompts ethical and ecological reflections on landscape fragility in the Anthropocene. Meanwhile, in In Cagliari, the Cittadella dei musei hosts ‘Terra Madre. Geografia del sensibile,’ a multisensory installation that creates a dialogue between the textile research of Maria Grazia Medda and the photography of Cédric Dasesson, featuring a soundified tree that translates bioelectric plant variations into audible signals. Newer exhibitions focus on cultural heritage and portraiture. In the Langhe and Roero regions, ‘J’é ‘r masche. Misteri e memorie tra Langhe e Roero’ explores local superstitions and the oral histories of ‘masche’—mysterious figures from rural folklore. Meanwhile, in Conegliano, ‘Ritratti di donna. Tra Hayez, Boldini e Carrà’ at Palazzo Sarcinelli showcases over 70 paintings from the Belle Époque to the 1950s, tracing the social and iconographic metamorphosis of women. This collection includes works by Hayez, Boldini, and Picasso, as well as a cloak belonging to Queen Margherita of Savoy.