Verona – There is an intimate magic in looking inside an oven, a daily gesture that Fulvio Morella has transformed into art. On 10 and 11 October, with his works featured in the exhibition “InOltre” at Palazzo Castellani, Cramum and Gaggenau bring this vision to the heart of the Veneto capital on the occasion of ArtVerona.
Rather than a mere household appliance, the Expressive oven becomes part of the installation itself: through its window a microcosm unfolds — enveloping warmth, bread rising, thought taking shape and ascending, enriched by the celebrated Braille Stellato devised by the artist in 2022.
As curator Sabino Maria Frassà notes: “InOltre is not only the title of the exhibition but also an invitation to go beyond the limits of the visible and venture into the inner dimension, where art, symbol and thought intertwine in a sensory and transformative experience. Fulvio Morella creates an immersive journey in which his Braille Stellato transforms the language of disability into a poetic and narrative tool. The Bauhaus ethos is the conceptual pivot, because, as Paul Klee wrote, ‘Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible what is not always so.’ Following this vision, Morella merges aesthetics, function and accessibility in works that do not illustrate the world but reveal it.”
Fulvio Morella at Palazzo Castellani with Gaggenau
The exhibition, hosted in the elegant rooms of Sotheby’s, presents a selection of Morella’s textile works, with the Expressive oven acting as a stage rather than a showcase. Among them stands out the previously unseen Occhio di stelle, set within the oven itself. Here the artist, reinterpreting Jung, embroiders upon a night sky the message: “Looking beyond means searching within.” In the deep spaces of consciousness and personal perception opens a reflection on interiority and on the emotional and mental landscapes that inhabit us.
“To touch the sky with a finger,” adds Morella, “we must first stop being afraid to look, to know and to understand the infinity each of us holds within.”
Fulvio Morella at Palazzo Castellani with Gaggenau
