2025.11.21-2025.12.28|Where Light Remains: A New Generation of Italian Painters

Artist

Matteo Casali Caramello, Martina Enrico, Asia Galeati, Francesca Gambacorta, Tommaso Duse, Roberta Assogna, Ileana Casarola, Claudiu-Alexandru Mazepiuc

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2025.11.21-2025.12.28
Where Light Remains: A New Generation of Italian Painters
SHUNG YE GALLERY

Overview

Where Light Remains: A New Generation of Italian Painters
Within the lineage of Italian painting, light has never been merely a matter of technique. It is a vessel of thought — the trace of the soul inscribed upon the visible world. From the divine illumination of the Renaissance to the inward gaze of modernity, light has remained the language through which artists converse with existence itself.

In this exhibition, we attune ourselves once more to the echoes of that light. No longer confined to a single geography or moment in history, it resounds as a shared vibration that transcends borders. For this new generation of Italian painters, painting becomes a means of responding to the condition of our time — a world marked by anxiety and solitude, yet also by memory, faith, and the quiet persistence of inner action.

Across their canvases, light endures. At times it emerges from the haze of morning beyond a window; at others it gathers in the warmth of a human gaze. More often, it manifests as an unseen current — a force moving through the thresholds of time, language, and culture.

"Where Light Remains" is therefore not solely an exhibition about Italy, but about the shared spirit of humanity. Through these works, we witness a culture renewing itself within the world, taking on new form and voice — no longer in the simple terms of offering and reception, but through an ongoing dialogue: between Italy and the world, between art and the soul, a light that continues to shimmer within the restless flow of time.

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