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Luca Parise
Surface, Friends, Fantasy, 20 February - 11 April 2026

Luca Parise: Surface, Friends, Fantasy

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Luca Parise, Surface, Friends, Fantasy
z2o Project is pleased to present Surface, Friends, Fantasy, the first solo exhibition by Luca Parise (Paris, 1991) in Rome, at the gallery space on Via Baccio Pontelli 16, curated by Enrico Camprini.
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Luca Parise’s practice unfolds in a multidisciplinary manner, with a specific focus on sculpture and drawing, understood both in their singularity and as a dual tool for investigating the ordinary and its reconfiguration, as well as the relationship between the real and the fantastic. Taken as a whole, the artist’s practice can be described as driven by a pronounced tendency toward the assemblage and juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements, whose compositional outcomes – both three and two-dimensional – consistently oscillate between narrative tension and a distinctive expressive impulse oriented toward the specific qualities of each medium. The exhibition presents a new body of work produced by Parise throughout 2025, including a group of sculptures that, through different formal solutions – most notably the interaction between ceramic and found objects – give shape to a variety of bizarre humanoid figures, seemingly yet ambiguously related to one another. They are accompanied, in counterpoint, by a selection of drawings: autonomous works that are at the same time inevitably connected to the sculptures, completing a project conceived as a free and ironic exercise in figure-building and concrete imagination.
 

 
Il lavoro di Luca Parise si articola in senso multidisciplinare con un focus specifico sulla scultura e il disegno, da intendersi sia nella loro singolarità che come duplice strumento per una ricerca sull’ordinario e la sua riconfigurazione, sul rapporto tra reale e fantastico. La pratica dell’artista, nel suo complesso, può essere descritta nei termini di una sostanziale tendenza all’assemblaggio e alla giustapposizione di elementi eterogenei il cui esito compositivo, tridimensionale e bidimensionale, oscilla sempre tra tensione narrativa e una singolare esigenza espressiva orientata ai caratteri specifici del mezzo. La mostra presenta una serie di lavori inediti realizzati da Parise nel corso del 2025, tra cui un gruppo di sculture che secondo differenti soluzioni – in particolare l’interazione tra ceramica e oggetti trovati – dà volto a una varietà di bizzarri personaggi umanoidi in apparente, ma incerta, relazione tra loro. Li accompagnano in contrappunto alcuni disegni: opere autonome e allo stesso tempo inevitabilmente legate alle sculture, completano un progetto che si pone come un libero e ironico esercizio di costruzione della figura, di immaginazione concreta.

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INFO:

Luca Parise | Surface, Friends, Fantasy

curated by Enrico Camprini

Opening Friday February 20th, 2026 | 6-9 pm

February 20 → April 11, 2026

z2o Project, via Baccio Pontelli 16, 1st Floor – 00153 Rome

Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday | 12-7 pm

T. +39 06 80073146 | info@z2ogalleria.it

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