Exhibition Ancient and contemporary 2026 di Andrés Avré
Solo exhibition of Andrés Avré’s works underway.
Inside the medieval fortified tower, a space originally conceived for defense and surveillance, the works on display establish an intense, silent dialogue with the materiality of time. The brick walls, marked by layers, wounds, and voids, are not merely architectural support but an active part of the exhibition’s narrative. In this memory-laden place, the encounter between ancient and contemporary emerges as a fertile, unresolved tension capable of generating new readings.
The abstract works, dominated by deep chromatic fields: reds, oranges, incandescent earth tones, seem to absorb and return the energy of the tower itself. Color is not decoration, but substance: a living material that converses with the roughness of the walls, evoking processes of sedimentation, erosion, and transformation. Like the ancient bricks, the painted surfaces reveal traces, fractures, and layers that speak of time, resistance, and change.
The installation does not seek neutrality, but rather embraces the specificity of the site. The works emerge from the walls as contemporary presences that both respect and question the architecture, creating a visual rhythm made of pauses, distances, and resonances. The tower, once a space of control and enclosure, thus opens itself to a contemplative dimension, becoming a place of passage and listening.
In this encounter between ancient and contemporary, the past is neither a nostalgic citation nor the present an act of rupture. Instead, the two coexist in a fragile yet necessary balance, where historical memory amplifies the meaning of the works and contemporaneity reactivates the significance of the place. The exhibition therefore takes shape as an experience of coexistence: a dialogue among times, materials, and visions, in which art becomes a tool for reading the past while simultaneously imagining new possibilities for the present.
Andrew Kelly
Andrés Avré
Born in Turin in 1966, he is a prolific and energetic self-taught painter with a growing profile of solo and group exhibitions.
Initially he expressed himself through the language of comics and illustration.
After a period dedicated to the audiovisual he returned to informal painting, an environment in which he feels truly and authentically free.
His cultural background, his interests, his acquaintances such as theater, history and archaeology are reflected in his work which nevertheless has as its main cultural reference American abstract expressionism. His creative process is stimulated mainly by the transformation of matter, and arises from the obsession for the continuous flow of a series of elements, objects, people and the relationships between them.
