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 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.