With Orizzonti 1, curated by Marco Franciolli, KROMYA Art Gallery Lugano opens a new chapter in its exhibition program, launching a cycle of exhibitions and publications dedicated to emerging voices in Swiss contemporary art. The Orizzonti project is conceived as a platform for observation and dialogue — a space in which artistic practices are understood as evolving trajectories, capable of outlining new perspectives on the present.

The first chapter brings together four artists — Davide Cascio, Lisa Lurati, Marco Scorti, and Miki Tallone — whose practices differ in form but converge in their shared approach to the artwork as a site of reflection, poetic tension, and conceptual inquiry. Their works move between material practice and theoretical investigation, addressing themes of memory, space, and transformation, and offering a multifaceted view of the contemporary Swiss art scene.

Davide Cascio’s work is rooted in a rigorous exploration of visual and conceptual sources. Beginning with collage as the core of his two-dimensional practice, the artist expands his language into sculpture and installation. Repetition and variation become tools to reflect on archives, memory, and the transformation of materials, generating layered structures that continuously reconfigure meaning.

In Lisa Lurati’s practice, nature appears as an archaic and dreamlike presence. Through photography, cyanotypes, and sculpture, she constructs an imagery in which real and invented forms merge, evoking primordial landscapes and hybrid organisms. Her works suggest poetic and unsettling visions that blur the boundaries between the natural and the imaginary.

Marco Scorti’s research focuses on landscape as a conceptual construction rather than a literal depiction. His modular project m.s.l.m. consists of large-scale canvases that are reconfigured at each exhibition in dialogue with the curator, transforming painting into an evolving entity. The work becomes a process rather than a fixed image, shaped by memory, perception, and time.

Miki Tallone’s work unfolds at the intersection of art, architecture, and memory. Her site-specific installations engage with space in a subtle and relational way, activating environments rather than dominating them. Through minimal gestures, she transforms space into a narrative and emotional field, inviting viewers into shared experiences of place.

Orizzonti 1 presents itself as an open map — a first exploration of a shifting territory. The exhibition does not seek definitive statements, but rather traces lines of inquiry and potential. Here, the horizon is not a boundary, but a projection: a threshold between what is already visible and what is yet to emerge.