Thursday 18 September 2025 was inaugurated “Itineraria Memoriae”, a solo exhibition by Lorenzo Gramaccia, curated by Maria Vittoria Marchetta, which presents to the public the most recent results of his artistic research.
“Itineraria Memoriae” marks a fundamental piece in the collaboration between Lorenzo Gramaccia (Ancona, 1992) and Galleria La Nica. Started in 2017 with the first collective exhibition dedicated to a selected group of young emerging artists, this bond was then consolidated over the years with other various collective exhibitions, the participation with La Nica in the 12th edition of the Biennale Manifesta and above all with the bi-persoanl exhibition “Tutto quel che resta” of 2021.
The title “Itineraria Memoriae” takes inspiration from the ancient Roman Itineraria, those registers of routes and distances that guided travelers through the cities and roads of the Empire. They were orientation tools, but also registers of movement and the relationship between body and space.
Always interested in the dichotomy between man and nature, as well as the fragility and transience of human existence, Lorenzo Gramaccia in his new cycle of works, all created with the aid of digital painting and layering software, seems to recover the ancient practice of Itineraria, but going further. The aim is not to propose a cartography of reality, but rather to offer us a journey through the maps of memory, in the places crossed not only physically but internally; paths –these – which are not measured in kilometers but in sensory, visual and profoundly intimate stratifications. In this perspective, the body, so important in his artistic research, is not just physical matter, but a sensitive archive, a territory crossed by time, places, relationships.
Lorenzo Gramaccia wants to suggest to us that memory is a dynamic space and that the journey should not be understood only as a physical movement towards a destination, but above all as an internal crossing, as a return to places that perhaps no longer exist, except in the fragile deposit of memory.
“Itineraria Memoriae”, curated by Maria Vittoria Marchetta, will be open from 18 September to 7 November, 2025.
