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Evgeny Antufiev | Luce che proietta ombra
curated by Lorenzo Balbi, 23 May - 13 September 2026

Evgeny Antufiev | Luce che proietta ombra: curated by Lorenzo Balbi

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Evgeny Antufiev, Untitled (detail), 2026, bronze, patina, cm 70.5 × 33.5 × 33.5
Evgeny Antufiev, Untitled (detail), 2026, bronze, patina, cm 70.5 × 33.5 × 33.5
z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce Light Casts Shadow at  Casa Morandi and 
Frozen Light at Casa Museo di Giorgio Morandi,
the show by Evgeny Antufiev, curated by Lorenzo Balbi.

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The project dedicated to the Russian artist Evgeny Antufiev unfolds across two parallel exhibitions in the places once inhabited by Giorgio Morandi: the Casa Museo in Bologna and the Casa Museo in Grizzana.
“This is a difficult exhibition for me,” the artist writes, because his encounter with Morandi does not emerge through continuity, but through friction: “Morandi’s works are light… mine are shadow… they negate one another, just as light negates shadow.”
In Bologna, the work shifts elsewhere: not toward painting, but toward engraving. It is within the line — “sharp, unsettling, at times piercing and angular” — that the artist recognizes a counterpoint to Morandi’s light, a zone of tension from which the mosaics and bronze sculptures emerge. Here, weight becomes decisive: “my works are heavy… like bronze and stone in an ancient tomb,” a gravity that does not illuminate but absorbs.
In Grizzana, the intervention grafts itself onto the house as a minimal yet insistent variation: objects in aluminum and silver, scattered from room to room, reflect that “frozen light” which seems to suspend time within the interiors. “The house is filled with sadness, frozen light, and frozen time,” Antufiev notes, finding in aluminum a kindred material, capable of conveying a muted, dusty, almost domestic luminosity.
The two exhibitions, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, do not seek common ground. Rather, they position themselves as poles: “two poles of the same sphere,” Antufiev writes, “opposite, yet no less connected for that.” It is within this distance — between light and shadow, between reflection and density — that the dialogue takes shape, not as synthesis but as coexistence, something that “in nature, cannot meet.”
 

 

 

Il progetto dedicato all'artista russo Evgeny Antufiev si articola in due mostre parallele nei luoghi frequentati da Giorgio Morandi: la Casa Museo a Bologna e la Casa Museo a Grizzana.
"Questa è una mostra difficile per me", scrive l’artista, perché il confronto con Morandi non si dà come continuità ma come attrito: "Le opere di Morandi sono luce…le mie sono ombra… si negano a vicenda, come la luce nega l’ombra".

A Bologna, il lavoro si sposta altrove: non verso la pittura, ma verso le incisioni. È nella linea — "netta, inquietante, a tratti pungente e angolare" — che l’artista riconosce un controcampo della luce morandiana, una zona di tensione da cui emergono i mosaici e le sculture in bronzo. Qui il peso diventa decisivo: "le mie opere sono pesanti… come il bronzo e la pietra in un’antica tomba", una gravità che non illumina ma assorbe.

A Grizzana, l’intervento si innesta nella casa come una variazione minima ma insistita: oggetti in alluminio e argento, disseminati stanza per stanza, riflettono quella "luce congelata" che sembra trattenere il tempo negli interni. "La casa è piena di tristezza, luce congelata e tempo congelato", nota Antufiev, trovando nell’alluminio un materiale affine, capace di restituire una luminosità attenuata, polverosa, quasi domestica.

Le due mostre curate da Lorenzo Balbi non cercano un terreno comune. Piuttosto, si dispongono come poli: "due poli della stessa sfera", scrive Antufiev, "opposti, ma non per questo meno connessi" . È in questa distanza — tra luce e ombra, tra riflessione e densità — che il dialogo si produce, non come sintesi ma come coesistenza, qualcosa che "in natura, non può incontrarsi".

 

Info: 

Evgeny Antufiev | Luce che proietta ombra
A cura di Lorenzo Balbi 

Casa Morandi, Via Fondazza 36 - 40125 Bologna

Opening hours:

Saturday: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Special opening: Saturday, May 23 (European Night of Museums) from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM

Summer opening hours starting from June 27, 2026:
Saturday and Sunday: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Free admission

For more information, click here.

 

Evgeny Antufiev | Luce congelata

A cura di Lorenzo Balbi 

Casa Museo di Giorgio Morandi, Località Campiaro, SP24, 115, 40030 Grizzana Morandi (BO)

Opening hours:

Saturday and Sunday: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Admission ticket: €5, with possible reductions.

For more information, click here.

 

 
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