The Rainbow Over Florence by Piero Percoco at Manifattura Tabacchi

Curated by C41, the exhibition presents an intense and evocative work dedicated to Heaven, a theme dear to the artist.

Overview

One could start from the observation of our surroundings to stimulate curiosity and realize that we actually do not know much about the world, in the simplicity of everyday life, despite the ever-present technological advances that lead us to believe we know everything. We think we know the sky, for example, because, since childhood, we have been taught about the solar system, galaxies, black holes, astronauts. We know the Milky Way exists but most of us have never seen it. So, clouds too have definite names, are the subject of study and observation, have been classified by scientists, and nature has its own definite rules while being extremely free and constantly adapting in response to changes imposed by human beings.

The Rainbow Over Florence, a solo exhibition by photographer Piero Percoco, is an exploration of the socio-natural landscape that characterizes his research, an invitation to question what we think we know and to find wonder in the ordinary, in the most familiar landscape as in the most colorful and extraordinary sky.

Clouds and cryptic messages, cosmic cobwebs, nature and the human being: a mash-up in which the ordinary and the extraordinary merge and are mirrored in the metaphor of the rainbow, an underestimated phenomenon, both
mundane and mystical.