Galleria Anna Marra is pleased to present Paura della solitudine (Fear of Solitude), a solo exhibition by Mirko Leuzzi, curated by Vittoria Mascellaro, which will inhabit the exhibition spaces from September 25 to October 25, 2025, tracing a complex emotional geography: a journey not only physical but profoundly interior. The exhibition gathers a selection of works created between 2024 and 2025, some born within the project "Le mie mani" (My Hands), others conceived later as a natural continuation of that process.

Leuzzi's journey originates as a visceral and instinctive practice, fueled by a figurative urgency that emerged during the pandemic and rooted in a torn existential condition. Through an evocative and layered visual language, the artist explores the affective dimension of existence, giving shape to vulnerable bodies, inner landscapes, symbolic animals, and figures suspended between proximity and distance.

His research then took on a choral dimension through "Le mie mani," an artistic residency he conceived in 2023. The project unfolded in three phases, each dedicated to a specific theme: emotional blocks (2023), emotional manipulation in relationships (2024), and, finally, the fear of solitude (2025). The first two editions took place in the farmhouse of Ca’ Vamperti, among the Florentine hills, while the third was held on the island of Alicudi, where the artist lived for a week with six participants from diverse fields—philosophy, literature, music, psychology, and theater—creating a true symposium on the most remote island of the Aeolian archipelago. Here, the project settled as a process of revelation: a slow emergence of fears, desires, and inner conflicts that find form in painting.

Thus, with Paura della solitudine, Leuzzi's practice reaches a moment of emergence, where collective experiences and individual processes merge, shaping an open and layered narrative. While the works born within "Le mie mani" document a phase of intense relational experimentation, those created afterward result from a more intimate and autonomous urgency. These continue and amplify the same investigation, revealing how the artist's pictorial language continues to be nourished by a living emotional tension capable of transforming individual experience into a shareable form.

Leuzzi constructs a visual language where fragility, archetypes, and inner visions intertwine. His paintings stage bodies oscillating between attraction and distance, totemic animals, immobile yet traversed figures, immersed in dense and vibrant spaces. The visual narrative invites recognition of the complexity of affective relationships, unmasking the mechanisms of control and dependence often hidden beneath the surface of love. The seductive aesthetics—between vivid colors and evocative compositions—amplify the tension between appearance and truth, between desire and wound.

The strength of the exhibition lies in Leuzzi's ability to challenge the boundary between autobiography and the collective dimension. Paura della solitudine creates, through painting, a common space to share what usually remains unspoken.