13/01/2026
Pintô Art Museum and Arboretum opens 2026 with an immersive, spectacular exhibition by Mark Justiniani, whose abiding practice inquires into how materials—chiefly mirror, light, and objects—can assume alchemical properties, rendering both visually and viscerally the malleability of reality, the reaches and depths of space, and the almost-there proximity of mystery.
“Departure and Arrival” marks the latest iteration of his “Infinity Series,” where images are layered, ramified, and extended into the vertiginous logic of the infinite. Rather than direct transcriptions of reality, these works function as symbolic architectures of it—meditations on how meaning is sought through the tunnels we excavate, the stories we rehearse, and the optical instruments we build to look past the firmament and into the universe’s restless convolutions.
In the titular work, the viewer peers through a telescope that cuts across accumulated pages of human history, the constructs of civilization, and into space punctuated with meteors, only to encounter oneself as part of the passage. Mirrors, light, darkness, and the calibrated atmosphere of the gallery fold perception inward, making self-awareness an unavoidable endpoint. The admonishment “Know thyself” achieves an intimate encounter.
The exhibition opens this Sunday, January 18, and will run until May 24, inviting audiences to settle into the experience Justiniani has carefully, magically, and unforgettably crafted.
