Bowman Hal presents Imminence, the new exhibition by Italian artist Siro Cugusi. The exhibition can be visited at SOLO CSV from 28 November to 31 January 2025. This is the third exhibition at the space, which opened in June 2025, and reflects Bowman Hal’s international and collaborative vision.
Between Dream and Matter
In Imminence, each work functions as a visual poem that invites viewers to abandon strict logic and enter a territory where emotion and intuition construct worlds that evoke possible, and potentially imminent, futures. Cugusi revisits traditional genres—landscape, still life, portrait—to transform them into hybrid settings where geometries, tubular structures, everyday objects, and lush vegetation coexist. His compositions, marked by diverse perspectives and a gestural use of color, evoke Renaissance echoes, the metaphysical atmosphere of Surrealism, and contemporary cinematic references.
The Intuition of Paint: Vibrations in Light and Form
Nature occupies a central place in these pieces, always transformed and in dialogue with artificial elements. In his landscapes, lush fields intersect with brilliant blue seas; organic forms coexist with enigmatic symbols, and a recurring red spiral, inspired by the Nuragic iconography of Sardinia, becomes a motif of life, cycles, and permanence. “I think a work should be complex enough to offer new secrets,” explains Cugusi, whose work emerges from a process of long layers, additions, eliminations, and continuous reinterpretations.
His painting is also a physical experience: large formats that envelop the viewer and paths that invite one to enter uninhabited landscapes. The artist describes his method as a continuous search, a way of losing oneself within the works. “My painting is not a planned act: images grow within the canvas. I work by adding and removing elements, in a process that functions as a conversation between past and present, where some forms emerge and others remain hidden.”
About Siro Cugusi
Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Sassari, he completed his MFA in 2004 before moving to Paris. He has held solo exhibitions in New York, Copenhagen, Naples, and Los Angeles, among other cities, and his work is part of collections such as the Lux Art Institute Museum (California), Fondazione Coppola (Vicenza), and the SOLO Collection (Madrid). In 2024, he celebrated his first major institutional presentation at the Nivola Museum (Sardinia).
His works, created on paper and canvas, incorporate echoes of the Renaissance, recognizable symbolism, and atmospheres akin to Surrealism, combining gestural expression, luminous color, and innovative perspectives. The artist describes his pieces as “states of thought and feeling,” small universes where logic is suspended to make way for imagination. The exhibition can be visited until 31 January at Bowman Hal, Madrid.