Luce Gallery is pleased to present E Ancora Primavera, Silvia Rosa’s first solo exhibition with the Gallery.

The exhibition brings together a new body of work in which painting functions as a device for the transformation of images. Through a process of accumulation, erasure, and reactivation, Silvia Rosa constructs a visual space where personal memory, the history of images, and the collective imagination converge within a pictorial materiality that is constantly being redefined.

The works emerge from the reworking of a vast personal archive made up of images collected, remembered, and preserved over time. What interests the artist, however, is not the recovery of these sources, but rather the process through which they are absorbed into the flow of visual experience until they lose their recognizability. The figures that inhabit the paintings gradually move away from their origins, entering an unstable dimension where individual memory and a shared iconographic heritage overlap and mutually contaminate one another.

Repetition, a central element in Rosa’s practice, does not coincide with the reiteration of the same. Rather, it becomes a tool capable of making visible the temporality of the image—its gradual transformation and its ability to move through different states and layers while preserving an internal tension.

Painting thus becomes a site where forms are subjected to continuous shifts. Figures, anatomical fragments, iconographic references, and fields of color emerge and dissolve within an open structure that is constantly being redefined. The image never appears as a finished form, but as a process unfolding across the surface of the painting, turning form itself into an organism in a state of continuous becoming.

At the core of Rosa’s research is the observation of the processes through which forms emerge, transform, and redefine themselves over time. In this sense, the repetition of forms and colors never amounts to the repetition of the identical; instead, it becomes a means of measuring the image’s ongoing transformation. The pictorial space takes shape as an open field in constant reorganization, where figurative and abstract elements coexist without establishing fixed hierarchies.

The viewer experiences a sense of familiarity that never fully translates into recognition. One moves through images that seem to evoke something known, yet continue to resist a singular interpretation. Figures, fragments, and fields of color oscillate between presence and dissolution, between what emerges clearly and what remains suspended. It is within this space of tension that painting finds its strength, inviting the viewer to engage not only with what is visible, but also with what remains open and undefined.

In this continual reactivation of the image, what once seemed settled and sedimented resurfaces in unexpected forms.

E Ancora Primavera does not refer to a season, but to a condition of perpetual regeneration. The images, bodies, and memories that inhabit these paintings never cease to transform, giving rise to new possibilities for connection and meaning. Like a bloom that continuously renews itself, each form contains the trace of what it has been and an opening toward what it may still become.

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Biography

Silvia Rosa (Latina, 1998) lives and works in Milan.

In 2025, she received her Master’s Degree in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, following her Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts in Rome, obtained in 2020.

Recent exhibitions and awards include Sguardi IV, Villa Giulia (Verbania, Italy); A Great Job, Kromya Art Gallery (Verona, Italy); Phänomenfarbe, Westend Galerie (Frankfurt, Germany); Premio Mestre di Pittura, Centro Culturale Candiani (Mestre, Italy); Sguardi III, Galleria L.U.P.O. (Milan, Italy); Premio Arte, Museo della Permanente (Milan, Italy); Summer Storm, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio (Milan, Italy); Malamegi Lab Art Prize Venice 2023, Imagoars (Venice, Italy); Mirabilis, Palazzo Meravigli (Milan, Italy); and Combat Prize, Museo Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, Italy).

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