Cortesi Gallery presents Il segno e lo sguardo. Featuring a Wunderkammer of Drawings and Photographs from Private Collections, opening on Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at its Milan gallery. Bringing together painting, sculpture, drawing and photography, the exhibition explores how artists transform visual experience into a personal language: the body becomes line, colour becomes rhythm, and matter becomes mark.
Through works from different periods and artistic perspectives, the exhibition connects the gesture that generates a form with the gaze that interprets it. Juxtapositions reveal correspondences between surfaces, structures and images, inviting visitors to continually adjust their way of looking: from the distance required by a large painting to the intimacy of a drawing, from the physical presence of a sculpture to the framing of a photograph.
In the first two rooms, the dialogue between Giuseppe Santomaso and Arnaldo Pomodoro introduces this enquiry through their approaches to materials. In Oltre il concetto, forms and traces emerge from a layered pictorial surface, retaining an evocative relationship with space and the memory of things seen.