Distant Bodies, solo exhibition by Michele Stagni

Fidanda Gallery is pleased to present Distant Bodies, a solo exhibition by Michele Stagni, curated by the gallery. Through a painterly research based on color and figuration, the artist constructs an investigation on time and the distance that separates what we are from what we continue to seek. In Stagni’s painting, the characters find themselves in an intermediate space: they traverse inner and symbolic landscapes, often accompanied by animals, objects, and cultural references that offer the public open readings and different meanings. The theme of time runs through the entire body of work. The works relate past and present, showing how identity is not a stable form but a construction in constant movement. Myth enters the works as a contemporary language. Figures like Ulysses and the Trojan Horse are removed from the heroic dimension and brought back to a more intimate scale, linked to personal experience and the human condition.

The exhibition includes paintings that dialogue with each other through the themes of time, identity, and change, relating to how the artist observes the present through the language of myth. Distant Bodies indicates this distance: not a clear separation, but a constant condition of search and relationship with oneself.

Michele Stagni was born in Pisa and lives and works in Livorno. His artistic path is rooted in childhood memories, when drawing and color manifested as a spontaneous and deep necessity. After his artistic studies, this original inclination solidified over time, turning into a personal research that still accompanies his painting practice today.

For him, painting arises from an authentic need for expression and exploration. Through a figuration rich in symbolic, mythological, and autobiographical references, Stagni constructs images that investigate the relationship between identity and time. His works are configured as spaces of reflection in which imagination and storytelling intertwine, shaping a narrative open to the meaning of being human and its continuous process of transformation.