RizzutoGallery

Mattia Barbieri

Info: RizzutoGallery is pleased to present the new solo exhibition by the artist Mattia Barbieri (b. 1985, Brescia, lives and works in Milan), titled Blumen De Lumine, which will be inaugurated on Friday, June 13, 2025, from 6 pm to 9 pm, at the gallery’s venue in Düsseldorf, Ackerstraße 34. Blumen De Lumine – a linguistic play blending German and Latin – can be translated as flowers of light. The exhibition presents a new cycle of works that explore the connection between light, nature, and sacredness, ranging from large-scale panel paintings to smaller, more intimate pieces on copper. In his works, Barbieri weaves together cultural and spiritual references, citing the famous alchemical treatise Lumen de Lumine (light of light), which alludes to the supreme creator and to light as the origin of all existence. The exhibition becomes a space where the flower, a symbol of beauty and fragility, is transformed into a powerful vehicle of cosmic energy. Pulsating forms and colorful stars burst forth like multiplying gleams, while the flowers, with their central stamens, radiate like small expanding galaxies. The contrast between delicacy and monumentality is one of the central themes of the exhibition. (…) New opening hours: Fridays, 4–6 pm / Saturdays 11 am–1 pm or by appointment.