SLAWOMIR ELSNER – PROJECT ROOM
2025-11-24In this exhibition Elsner establishes a visual and conceptual dialogue with Pietro Dorazio, a leading representative of post-war Italian abstract art, choosing his work Reticoli from Collezione Ramo as a meeting point. Dorazio’s exploration of color and structure becomes both a mirror and a counterpart to Elsner’s investigations into perception, abstraction, and the act of seeing. Slawomir Elsner’s artistic practice has long revolved around the transformation of historical imagery through drawing.
In this new series, the artist revisits paintings by Palma Vecchio, Bernardino Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, artists rooted in the Renaissance tradition of Milan and Lombardy. Rather than reproducing them, Elsner translates these works into distilled, meditative compositions, where gesture and chromatic vibration replace narrative and symbolism.
Opposite – Saint with palm reading the scriptures (after Bernardino Luini), 2025
Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2026
Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy
