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Luca Moscariello | Quasi ombra
with a text by Saverio Verini, 1 October - 22 November 2026

Luca Moscariello | Quasi ombra: with a text by Saverio Verini

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Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa
Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

z2o Project is pleased to present Quasi ombra, the first solo exhibition by Luca Moscariello, at the gallery space on Via Baccio Pontelli 16, with a text by Saverio Verini.

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Moscariello’s artistic practice revolves around perception and the ability of painting to destabilise the boundary between reality and artifice. Using trompe l'œil techniques, Moscariello creates images in which surface and depth, material and representation continuously overlap.

 

In his most recent works, the grain of wood and subtle linear marks become central elements within this perceptual interplay. The wooden surface is observed, broken down, and then reconstructed through a painting technique characterised by a disorienting hyperrealistic effect.

 

It is within this ambiguity that the lines running across the paintings also emerge: slender, suspended forms that sometimes resemble ideograms or signs belonging to an indecipherable language. Through precisely rendered shadows, these forms appear to acquire volume and detach themselves from the pictorial plane. Only upon closer inspection does the nature of the illusion become apparent: shadow and form belong to the same surface, and what initially appeared three-dimensional is revealed to be entirely painted.

 

Quasi ombra emerges from this very ambiguity, from images that are simultaneously plausible and fictitious, capable of calling into question what we see. The shadows crossing the works appear coherent and convincing yet remain painterly devices: shadows that are almost real, suspended in the gap between what we see and what we believe we see.

 


 

La ricerca di Moscariello si sviluppa attorno alla percezione e alla possibilità della pittura di mettere in crisi il confine tra realtà e artificio. Attraverso un personale uso del trompe-l’œil, l’artista costruisce immagini in cui superficie e profondità, materia e rappresentazione tendono continuamente a sovrapporsi.

 

Nelle opere più recenti, le venature del legno e sottili segni lineari diventano elementi

centrali di questo gioco percettivo. La superficie lignea viene osservata, scomposta e ricostruita attraverso una pittura contraddistinta da uno spaesante effetto iperrealistico.

 

È all’interno di questa ambiguità che si collocano anche le linee che attraversano i dipinti, forme sottili e sospese, a tratti simili a ideogrammi o segni di un linguaggio non immediatamente decifrabile. Grazie a ombre costruite con precisione, queste presenze sembrano acquisire spessore e staccarsi dal piano pittorico. Solo avvicinandosi emerge la natura dell’inganno: ombra e forma appartengono alla stessa superficie, e ciò che appariva tridimensionale si rivela interamente dipinto.

 

Quasi ombra nasce proprio da questa ambiguità, da immagini plausibili e insieme fittizie, capaci di mettere in dubbio ciò che vediamo. Le ombre che attraversano le opere appaiono coerenti e verosimili, ma restano artifici pittorici: quasi ombre, appunto, sospese nello scarto tra ciò che vediamo e ciò che crediamo di vedere.

 

For further press material please contact info@z2ogalleria.it.

 

INFO:

Luca Moscariello

Opening Thursday, October 1 | 6–9 PM

October 1 →  November 22, 2026
z2o Project, Via Bac cio Pontelli 16, 1st Floor | Rome
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday | 12–7 pm
T. +39 06 80073146 | info@z2ogalleria.it

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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

  • Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026. Ph Roberto Apa

    Installation view, Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, with a text by Saverio Verini, z2o Project, 2026.

    Ph Roberto Apa

Works
  • Luca Moscariello, Sublimi incertezze, 2025
    Luca Moscariello, Sublimi incertezze, 2025
  • Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, 2026
    Luca Moscariello, Quasi ombra, 2026
  • Luca Moscariello, Grande sinopia, 2026
    Luca Moscariello, Grande sinopia, 2026
  • Luca Moscariello, Predica dello sguardo, 2025
    Luca Moscariello, Predica dello sguardo, 2025
  • Luca Moscariello, Madamadorè, 2025
    Luca Moscariello, Madamadorè, 2025
  • Luca Moscariello, Recita delle astuzie n.2, 2025
    Luca Moscariello, Recita delle astuzie n.2, 2025
  • Luca Moscariello, Liriche inattese, 2025
    Luca Moscariello, Liriche inattese, 2025
  • Luca Moscariello, Intarsio, 2026
    Luca Moscariello, Intarsio, 2026

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