16.5″x11.7″; analogic collage; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Stefano Carbone: Technicolor
at the Centro Internazionale di Quartiere (C.I.Q.), Milan, Italy
23 June – 5 July 2026
In this exhibition, Stefano Carbone celebrates the transformative power of color as an act of resistance, freedom, and identity affirmation. Through a series of mixed-media collages, the exhibition unfolds from images dominated by dark or monochromatic tones, gradually interrupted by bursts of color that break through the grey, disrupt silence, and open new spaces of possibility.
Dedicated to Pride and the many dimensions of the LGBTQIA+ experience, the exhibition intertwines historical memory, pop culture, and symbolic imagery. Figures connected to queer liberation movements, alongside cultural icons that have shaped the collective imagination — become generative presences of color: rainbows, natural elements, visual metamorphoses, and symbols of rebirth move through the works as expressions of emancipation and vitality.
16.5″x11.7″; analogic collage; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Created through collage and mixed-media techniques, the artworks emerge from the use of reclaimed materials, later reworked through digital interventions. A process that brings together manual gesture and contemporary transformation, where fragments become language and recomposition turns into a poetic and political act.
In “Technicolor,” color is not mere ornamentation: it is a statement. An invitation to resist opaque times, to imagine new possibilities of existence, and to reclaim the right to joy, complexity, and visibility.
This exhibition was organized in collaboration with La Estación del Arte, a Madrid-based association that supported the project by facilitating contacts and assisting with installation.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
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