Forms in Formation

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Casa MB is pleased to present Forms in Formation: Across Image, Matter, and Memory, a group exhibition featuring the work of Alice Faloretti, Ezio Gribaudo, and Mattia Sinigaglia. The exhibition opens on April 16 from 7 to 9 pm and runs through May 16 by appointment in Milan, Italy. The exhibition is realized through a curatorial collaboration between F2T Gallery (representing Mattia Sinigaglia), sans titre (representing Ezio Gribaudo), and Martina Polini (supporting Alice Faloretti).

The show brings together three Italian artistic practices across different generations not to define form, but to ask how it comes into being. What connects these artists is not a shared language but a shared suspicion that form is never simply given. It is constructed through time, mediation, and perception. The works gathered here do not present fixed images. They propose forms still in the process of becoming.

In Alice Faloretti’s work, images shift and overlap, generating unstable fields of perception that blur the boundaries between landscape and imagination. In paintings such as Le radici delle nuvole (2024) and Nocturne #2 (2026), cavernous forms, flowing water, and fragmented terrain dissolve into one another, producing environments that feel at once geological and hallucinatory.

Mattia Sinigaglia’s practice unfolds through layering and material time, where painting and structure develop in a slow dialogue across surfaces and objects. Works such as Datura (2026) and Veglie e Riposi (2026) combine oil painting with carved wood and ceramic elements, allowing images to emerge gradually from their material supports and hover between figuration and abstraction.

Ezio Gribaudo’s works on paper evoke forms shaped through memory and mediated experience rather than direct observation. In drawings including Kings Canyon, Australia and Ayers Rock (1984), simplified shapes and restrained color suggest landscapes recalled rather than seen, filtered through distance and time.

Across different languages, each artist engages with a different condition of distance from the immediate. What emerges is a space in which form is never given, but continually constructed. Faloretti and Sinigaglia both trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, while Gribaudo belongs to an earlier generation. The exhibition holds this distance not as a gap to bridge, but as part of its structure.

Alice Faloretti (b. 1992, Brescia, Italy) is a painter based in Brescia. She received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2018, following a BFA from the Santa Giulia Academy in 2015. Her work has been exhibited across Italy, including Passages at Luce Gallery, Turin (2024), Italian Painting Today at the Triennale di Milano (2023–24), and Il continente buio at Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2023). She has completed residencies at Palazzo Monti, The Fores Project, and Living Room, and received the Rotary Asolo Prize (2021), with shortlistings for the Premio Cairo (2022) and Lissone Prize (2023).

Ezio Gribaudo (b. 1929–2022) exhibited internationally over a career spanning several decades. He rose to prominence in the 1960s with presentations at the Salon de Mai in Paris, the Venice Biennale (1966), where he received the Official Prize, and the São Paulo Bienal (1967). His work was later shown at institutions including Marlborough Gallery, London, and the Kunstverein in Göttingen, with a major retrospective in Turin in 1986. In 2003 he was awarded the City of Turin’s Gold Medal and later served as President of the Albertina Academy, where he was named Honorary Academician.

Mattia Sinigaglia (b. 1989) has exhibited internationally, with recent highlights including Enchanted Vision at Kwai Fung Hin Gallery, Hong Kong (2026), and L’animale che dunque sono at AplusA Gallery, Venice (2025). His work has been included in major group exhibitions such as Venice Time Case and HAND/MADE in Paris, and presented at fairs including PAD Paris and Roma Arte in Nuvola. He has exhibited in cities including Rome, Milan, Modena, and New York. Sinigaglia has been recognized as a finalist for the Premio VAF (2026), Premio Cairo (2025), and Francesco Fabbri Prize (2021), and has completed residencies including ViaFarini in Milan.