27/03/2026
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📌 Alfredo Pirri. Quello che avanza
Site-specific installation created for Polytropon Arts Center, Florence, Italy
From 1 March to 21 June 2026
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Quello che avanza [what remains, what is left over] is an environmental installation that takes shape as an active residue, as what remains after a process but which, precisely for this reason, continues to generate meaning.
A series of 144 cyanotypes created between 2014 and 2017 transform the real space into a perceptual field within which the passage of time leaves its traces, just as the river glides steadily past the windows of Polytropon Arts Center. In dialogue with the cyanotypes, the works in the ARIE series introduce an additional dimension: that of unstable matter, suspended between weight and lightness. Made with feathers, pigments, plexiglass and crystal, the works offer themselves as still frames of an invisible movement, surfaces crossed by colour and light that change with space and with the gaze.
The title of the installation alludes to a dual direction: what remains from the manufacturing processes but also what comes forward thanks to them. Alfredo Pirri's artistic intervention as a whole turns its gaze to process and memory – but it does so without nostalgia, as if each residue contained within itself a trace of a possible future.
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