Vincenzo Castella: Il libro di Padova

Padua, like many Italian cities, is a treasure trove of history and beauty. It is home to one of the oldest universities in the world, is the cradle of the arts, and has a botanical garden dating back to the 16th century that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A place of wonder, which has inspired artists and writers over the centuries.
The artist Vincenzo Castella presents in the exhibition a selection of forty images of the city of Padua, experimenting with a possible aesthetic translation from the format of the book published by Silvana Editoriale – which collects a hundred photographs taken between 2020 and 2021 – to that of the exhibition.

The city is shown through four themes: the “Botanical Garden“, or more generally the plant world; “painting“, mainly frescoes, preserved in churches, chapels, oratories, baptisteries, and palaces; “architecture“, which the artist allows to emerge as an almost always internal space; and the “University“, with its history as a crucial node of European culture.