Renato Leotta, 'Unfolding of Time (Apollo di Piombino)', 2025. Courtesy of the Artist and Sprovieri, London
Sprovieri is delighted to present Unfolding of Time (Archaeology-Patisserie), the third solo exhibition of Renato Leotta at the gallery. Archaeology-Patisserie I imagined the landscape as the unfolding of time upon surfaces, including my own. The outer layers contain an inner part. Fragrant surfaces – like wax or marzipan – or soft ones, like raw clay, compose a theatre of sweet images that belong to time: a barely sketched car (Gita), the cast of a beach shaped by the tide, imagined as the side of a female body (Nudo). A collection of universal images that speak of a slow and inexorably...
