The Medial Framework was invented by Coltro in 2001 and represents a new medium that modifies the enjoyment of the artwork as it allows for the production of an aesthetic and iconic flow in constant change. No longer a fixed device as in the case of video, but a work that, based on the artist’s inputs, develops a process that cannot be predetermined.

The exhibition analyzed the evolution of the Medial Framework starting from the landscape, poised between the romantic atmospheres of Caspar David Friedrich and the photo-paintings of Gerhard Richter. The section also included the presence of the Arborescences, forms of naturalistic architectures, where Coltro investigated the theme of birth and germination. The section dedicated to still life was characterized by the hybridization between objects that participated in the change of lifestyle, here placed in the conditions to develop their progressive otherness. The application of the Medial Framework to the logic of abstraction was not lacking, where the slow metamorphosis of the elements created unpredictable dialogues between masters such as Giacomo Balla and Piet Mondrian and digital aesthetics. The figure studies had as their fulcrum the recent Milanese personal exhibition at the Studio Museo Francesco Messina, in which Coltro had composed virtual dances inside imaginary theatrical backdrops, superimposing and modifying certain works by the Sicilian sculptor dedicated to his muse Aida Accolla, former prima ballerina of La Scala, with a particular attention to the sign component.

Each section of the exhibition proposed different reading levels and from each Medial Framework, the digital icons produced in a unique specimen derived, which seemed to fix the moment by shattering the temporal flow. It was a renewed procedure where the artist fixed the reminiscence of the image that was continuously reformulated inside the Medial Framework.