The La Nuvola Gallery in Via Margutta is pleased to host, on Tuesday 14 October 2025 at 6 p.m., the solo exhibition by Paolo del Gallo di Roccagiovine (Rome, 1995), curated by Alice Falsaperla and with a critical contribution by Elio Pecora. The event will be inaugurated during the Notte Bianca, an initiative organised by the Via Margutta Association, which is sponsoring the event together with the Municipality of Rome. Entitled Butterfly Effect, the exhibition focuses on the theme of the butterfly, a universal symbol of metamorphosis, fragility and rebirth. Until 28 October, the Roman artist will be exhibiting a body of work in the historic spaces of the Gallery, combining painting on canvas with interventions on hourglasses, mirrors and antique frames,creating a microcosm in which landscape, memory and ornament coexist. Each butterfly is not only an expression of the facets present in nature, but also of a possible connection between cultures and eras. It reminds us that even the smallest gesture can have immense consequences,' explains the artist.
The gallery space thus becomes a visual ecosystem where the artist's pictorial gesture contaminates and inhabits the antique objects she recovers, giving life to contemporary relics. Here, the public will have the opportunity to witness, alongside the works, a performance conceived in situ, using the trompe-l'oeil technique. This is a refined exhibition which, through three-dimensional illusion, captures the concept of the ephemeral, reflected in time and nature.
The author's creations are a poetic documentation of a relic of the moment, of a beauty that remains even in its transience. Among the hopes is that of giving rise, in the face of delicacy, to a new feeling of protection and passion for the environment. It is a style capable of touching on themes related to both cultural and natural conservation, combining the sacred and the profane through a succession of true memento mori. There is no warning of the ambush of 'an eternal presence of non-existence', but rather a celebration of transience; a glimpse of beauty in a flutter of wings, where life is consumed at the very moment it begins.
