10/03/2026 - 18/04/2026
Aria Art Gallery is pleased to present The Target is You, a group exhibition in collaboration with WHY NAT projects that explores the notion of the target not merely as an external object, often associated with danger, conflict, and the imagery of contemporary events, but as a symbolic device pointing toward an inner dimension. In this perspective, the target is no longer simply a point to be struck in space. It becomes an invisible place: a psychological threshold where perception, memory, and imagination shape what we experience as reality.
Every work of art emerges from this tension. Its ‘intention’ often reveals itself only during the act of creation, becoming fully legible once the work is complete. What appears suddenly in the finished artwork is therefore the result of a deep and very long preparation. As Elio D’Anna writes: “Nothing can happen externally to a man without his inner consent, even if unconscious. Nothing can occur without first passing through his Vision.”
Through diverse languages and materials, the artists in the exhibition reinterpret symbols associated with violence: airplanes, bullets, and shell casings, transforming them into unexpected forms that oscillate between irony, abstraction, and poetic transfiguration. In this process of transformation, the object loses its original function and becomes sign, metaphor, possibility… consciousness. The target thus shifts from the outside to the inside: from a point to be struck to a space to be recognized in oneself.
On display, for the first time in Florence, are Daniele Sigalot’s airplanes thrown against the wall, which recall the paper planes we used as children, but are made of steel and arranged to form a precise geometric composition. Tomasz Kopcewicz’s paintings feature colorful geometric shapes that playfully represent sections and components of firearms. Federico Ferrarini’s wall-mounted marble sculptures depict cosms and universes carved into the material, like traces or ancient fossils created in the present. Federico Uribe uses reclaimed materials, such as bullet casings, to compose works representing landscapes and animals. The abstract paintings by Sossio and Lorenzo Malfatti create a more introspective space, where the target is directly connected to the viewer’s inner dimension: chromatic surfaces and subtle shades that do not refer to recognizable forms but invite imagination and contemplation. The exhibition is completed by works by Angelo Brescianini, Marko Lađušić, Andrea Guastavino, and Milija Čpajak.