San Carlo

San Carlo a church, an artist, an exhibition.

PAOLA PIVIA HELICOPTER UPSIDE DOWN 2025Today presented at Heartland festival, Denmark.Last year the artwork debuted as a...
18/06/2026

PAOLA PIVI
A HELICOPTER UPSIDE DOWN
2025

Today presented at Heartland festival, Denmark.

Last year the artwork debuted as a site specific installation created for San Carlo Cremona.

Paola Pivi presents an Agusta 109 helicopter, flipped upside down and placed, in this case, on a platform in front of Egeskov Castle. This positioning transforms an object known for its functionality and association with movement into an unexpected and disorienting presence. The inversion emphasizes the tension between the helicopter’s tangible materiality and its symbolic connection to flight, challenging visitors to reconsider their perceptions and interactions with familiar objects, which in this context take on a new and surprising dimension.

Paola Pivi
A helicopter upside down, 2025
Agusta A109All
2.73 × 11.8 × 8.5 m

Photography of the last image of the post by Attilio Maranzano

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Curated by Ida Lodsgaard
Thanks to Tone Bonnén

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SAN CARLO is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of LORENZO SPINELLI. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICHSospeso nel moto con addebito di vuotoOn view at San Carlo Cremona until June 12th...
17/04/2026

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICH
Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto

On view at San Carlo Cremona until June 12th, 2026

Show open on Saturday April 18th from 3:00 until 6:00 pm

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Guglielmo Castelli’s painting expands into space and becomes an integral part of the scene. His fragile and suspended figures - bodies, fragments, and allusive presences - seem to emerge from and dissolve into the pictorial field. In this project, the images also recall the Baroque iconographic tradition of the fall of the giants: bodies that plunge, slip, and lose their balance, as if space itself were crossed by a continuous downward movement.

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Performance by Accademia Stauffer and ITER Research Ensemble, directed by Fabio Cherstich.

String Trio:
Ilaria Taioli
Salvatore Emmanuel Borrelli
Caterina Vannoni

Choir:
Chiara Aquilani
Margherita Bellini
Francesco Bombarda
Giovanni Cestino
Stefano Colombo
Emanuele Cristini
Rebecca Favale
Lucia Gualandi
Chiara Lora
Riccardo Roveyaz
Giuseppe Trovato




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Image:

Guglielmo Castelli and Fabio Cherstich
Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto, 2026

Printed canvas
Performance by Accademia Stauffer and ITER Research Ensemble, directed by Fabio Cherstich

Courtesy the artists, San Carlo Cremona, Mendez Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York / Paris, and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.

Ph: Form Group - Andrea Rossetti

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San Carlo is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

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With the contribution of Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York / Paris, and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.

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In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

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Visitor information: [email protected]

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICHSospeso nel moto con addebito di vuotoSospeso nel motocon addebito di vuoto,avanzo...
24/03/2026

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICH
Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto

Sospeso nel moto
con addebito di vuoto,
avanzo di niente,
Sostegno di poco.

In questa caduta di santi e giganti,
inermi dinanzi
ai giorni distanti.

Non c’è caduta che non vada per gradi,
Il dubbio insegna
meglio dei padri.

E dunque sapendo che la verità è nella forma,
allora anche l’errore
ha una sua norma.

Chiudendo e battendo su nota supina,
resta il tentare che culla e confina.

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Performance by Accademia Stauffer and ITER Research Ensemble, directed by Fabio Cherstich.

String trio:
Ilaria Taioli
Salvatore Emmanuel Borrelli
Caterina Vannoni

Choir:
Chiara Aquilani
Margherita Bellini
Francesco Bombarda
Giovanni Cestino
Stefano Colombo
Emanuele Cristini
Rebecca Favale
Lucia Gualandi
Chiara Lora
Riccardo Rovejaz
Giuseppe Trovato




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The show at San Carlo Cremona will be on view until June 2026

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Images:

Guglielmo Castelli and Fabio Cherstich
Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto, 2026

Printed canvas
Performance by Accademia Stauffer and ITER Research Enseble, directed by Fabio Cherstich

Courtesy the artists, San Carlo Cremona, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York / Paris, and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.

Ph: Form Group - Andrea Rossetti

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San Carlo Cremona is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

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With the contribution of Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York / Paris, and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.

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In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

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Visitor information: [email protected]

OPENING TODAYGUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICHSospeso nel moto con addebito di vuotoSospeso nel motocon addebito di...
21/03/2026

OPENING TODAY

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICH
Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto

Sospeso nel moto
con addebito di vuoto,
avanzo di niente,
Sostegno di poco.

In questa caduta di santi e giganti,
inermi dinanzi
ai giorni distanti.

Non c’è caduta che non vada per gradi,
Il dubbio insegna
meglio dei padri.

E dunque sapendo che la verità è nella forma,
allora anche l’errore
ha una sua norma.

Chiudendo e battendo su nota supina,
resta il tentare che culla e confina.

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Opening tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Church of San Carlo - Via Bissolati, 33, Cremona

A live performance will take place during the opening, featuring a string trio from Accademia Stauffer and the choir ITER Research Ensemble, directed by Fabio Cherstich.

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San Carlo is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

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With the contribution of Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York / Paris, and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.

In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

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Visitor information: [email protected]

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICH“Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto”Opening tomorrow Saturday March 21st from ...
20/03/2026

GUGLIELMO CASTELLI and FABIO CHERSTICH
“Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto”

Opening tomorrow Saturday March 21st from 6:30 8:30 pm

A live performance will take place during the opening, featuring a string trio from Accademia Stauffer and the choir ITER Research Enseblem, directed by Fabio Cherstich.

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San Carlo Cremona is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

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With the contribution of Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo | Brussels | Paris | New York and Sylvia Kouvali, London | Piraeus

In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

FABIO CHERSTICHL’Italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini2026Fabio Cherstich directs Rossini’s comic masterpiece L’Italia...
19/03/2026

FABIO CHERSTICH

L’Italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini
2026

Fabio Cherstich directs Rossini’s comic masterpiece L’Italiana in Algeri. The production is conceived as a way to give physical, theatrical form to the irrepressible energy of the score - comic, overwhelming, explosive - built on accumulation, momentum, short circuits, rhythmic traps, and sudden detonations.

The stage becomes a machine on the verge of losing control, where the grotesque is not an aesthetic but a lens: the characters emerge as deliberately exaggerated, distorted, and stereotyped masks.

Photo by Andrea Mazzoni
Courtesy Fondazione i Teatri Reggio Emilia

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“Sospeso nel moto con addebito di vuoto” by Guglielmo Castelli and Fabio Cherstich will open on Saturday March 21st from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
A live performance will take place during the opening.

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San Carlo is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli. The space is a place of research, creation, and sharing.

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With the contribution of Mendes Wood DM, Säo Paulo | Brussels | Paris | New York, and Sylvia Kouvali, London | Piraeus.

In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

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Visitor information: [email protected]

MASSIMO BARTOLINI100 GIORNIThe church nave hosts an installation that embodies some of the most emblematic themes of Bar...
20/09/2025

MASSIMO BARTOLINI
100 GIORNI

The church nave hosts an installation that embodies some of the most emblematic themes of Bartolini’s work: the tension between the visible and the invisible, the suspension between the real and the symbolic, the transformation of light into both matter and narrative.

At the entrance, a large unlit luminaria forms an architectural body composed of modular geometries. This marks the second time Bartolini has worked with Sicilian luminarie, here shown in a dormant state, deprived of light and reduced to an essential framework. These traditional lights from Southern Italy, typically used for religious and civic celebrations, become in this context a diaphanous space, suspended between promise and disillusionment, where the festivity seems frozen, perhaps already over, or perhaps yet to begin.

At the back of the altar, a red neon light turns on, illuminating and giving voice to two wall inscriptions discovered in the Cremona prison. While light is extinguished in the luminaria, here the word takes luminous form, revealing a private sign in a public way.

The exhibition unfolds as a double threshold, where the element of light is removed from the festive apparatus and returned to the voice of the isolated individual. What emerges is an unstable balance, playing on the contrasts between transparency and secrecy, freedom and constraint, vision and imagination.

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The show will be open today from 3 pm to 8 pm and tomorrow, Sunday September 21st from 11 am to 7 pm

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Images:
Massimo Bartolini
100 Giorni, 2025
Luminarie
600 x 600 x 2100 cm
Ed. Unique
Courtesy San Carlo Cremona and the artist
With the contribution of MASSIMODECARLO

Photo credit: Form Group - Andrea Rossetti

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San Carlo is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli and Form. The Creative Group. The space is a place of research, creation, and sharing.

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A project by Form. The Creative Group

With the contribution of MASSIMODECARLO

In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

PAOLA PIVIA HELICOPTER UPSIDE DOWNOn view at San Carlo Cremona from March the 1st until the end of JunePaola Pivi presen...
01/03/2025

PAOLA PIVI
A HELICOPTER UPSIDE DOWN

On view at San Carlo Cremona from March the 1st until the end of June

Paola Pivi presents an Agusta 109 helicopter, flipped upside down and placed on the floor of the central nave of the church San Carlo. This positioning transforms an object known for its functionality and association with movement into an unexpected and disorienting presence. The inversion emphasizes the tension between the helicopter’s tangible materiality and its symbolic connection to flight, challenging visitors to reconsider their perceptions and interactions with familiar objects, which in this context take on a new and surprising dimension.

Photography by Attilio Maranzano

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SAN CARLO is a contemporary art exhibition space made possible by the commitment of Lorenzo Spinelli and Form. The Creative Group. The space is a place for research, creation, and sharing.

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A project by Form. The Creative Group.

With the contribution of MASSIMODECARLO

A special thanks to Pro Iter Group

In collaboration with APALAZZOGALLERY

MONICA BONVICINI“And Rose”Opening tonight 6:30 - 8:30 pmMonica Bonvicini’s site-specific installation in a deconsecrated...
05/10/2024

MONICA BONVICINI
“And Rose”

Opening tonight
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Monica Bonvicini’s site-specific installation in a deconsecrated church adds another step to the artist’s practice centered on the interaction between artwork, viewer and architecture. With imposing sculptures from the series “Chainswings” dominating the nave, Bonvicini continues her incisive exploration of the dynamics of power inherent in architectural spaces, bringing her investigation to new levels of complexity and resonance.

These performative sculptures, which oscillate between play and submission, are made with galvanized steel chains and embody a provocative synthesis of industrial aesthetics and sub-cultural allusions, challenging the expectations associated with both contemporary art ad sacred spaces.

The installation is critically inserted in the current debate about the role of art in public spaces and the participatory nature of artistic experience. By inviting visitors to physical interaction, Bonvicini subverts the traditional dynamic of passive contemplation, transforming the audience into an active co-creator of the work.

The choice of a deconsecrated church as an exhibition space amplifies the importance of the work, creating a tense dialogue between sacred and profane, institutional and subversive. This gesture not only highlights Bonvicini’s ability to respond eloquently to architectural spaces, but also raises crucial questions about the re-appropriation of public spaces and the fluidity of the boundaries between art, architecture and social criticism.

“And Rose” immerses itself in the central points of Bonvicini’s practice: feminism, sexuality, power and institutional criticism. However, in this context, these themes acquire new nuances, inviting a reflection on the persistence of power structures even in apparently desacralized spaces.

Image: Monica Bonvicini, And Rose, installation view at San Carlo Cremona, 2024, galvanised steel rings, chain links and chains, 9 x 11 meters.
Courtesy the artist.
Photo: Form Group

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Soon at San Carlo CremonaMONICA BONVICINI“Stairway to Hell” is a work by Monica Bonvicini, created in 2023. This sculptu...
02/10/2024

Soon at San Carlo Cremona

MONICA BONVICINI

“Stairway to Hell” is a work by Monica Bonvicini, created in 2023. This sculptural installation consists of a vertical metal staircase, evocative of a path that defies traditional conventions.

The work addresses complex issues such as power, vulnerability, and gender conflict, reflecting on architecture and its social impact. The staircase, a symbol of rise and fall, invites the viewer to consider the ambivalences of social and personal progression.

The use of industrial materials and the austere form create a striking contrast, urging the audience to reflect on their relationship with the surrounding environment and the nature of their aspirations.

Image: Monica Bonvicini, Stairway to Hell, 2023.
Steel stairs, steel chains, broken safety glass, aluminum plates, spray paint, s hooks, clamps.

Photo: Bariş Aras & Elif Çakalar

©️ Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bild Kunst / SIAE
Courtesy the artist

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A special thanks to and

SAN CARLO is a project in collaboration with

SAN CARLO is supported by Lorenzo Spinelli and

Monica Bonvicini’s solo show at San Carlo Cremona will be on view from Saturday October the 5th at 6:30 pm

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26100

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