Lambrate Art Night #45: An evening of openings, painting, and contemporary visions in the Milan district
- Editorial Staff
- Apr 8
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 9
On Thursday, April 9, Lambrate Art Night returns: galleries and studios open to the public with openings, ongoing exhibitions, and guided tours, in a widespread route that runs through the neighborhood and brings into dialogue practices and languages of contemporary art.
It is not just an evening of openings, nor a simple collective gallery opening. Lambrate Art Night functions instead as a temporary map: for a few hours, between Via Massimiano, Via Ventura, and the surrounding streets, the neighborhood transforms into an open system of exhibitions, studios, and projects in dialogue.
From 6 to 9 PM, visitors are invited to move freely between different spaces, encountering practices and languages ranging from painting to performance, from installation to drawing, and extending to technological experimentation. Some exhibitions open during the evening, while others are already underway but find in Art Night a moment of reactivation through the presence of artists, guided tours, and moments of in-depth exploration.
It is within this overlap between opening and continuity that the rhythm of the evening takes shape: a sequence of crossings in which the neighborhood becomes a single, widespread exhibition space.
Via Massimiano and its surroundings: the core of the evening
The heart of Lambrate Art Night is concentrated around Via Massimiano 25/27 and its immediate surroundings, where galleries create a compact yet layered route.
At Francesca Minini, the exhibition Ostinato by Roberto de Pinto, on view until May 9, represents one of the key points of the route. During the evening, a guided tour with the artist is scheduled at 7:30 PM, offering direct insight into the process behind the works.
De Pinto’s research revolves around a recurring figure, an alter ego that runs through his practice and defines its continuity. In his most recent works, this presence intensifies: pictorial surfaces become more layered, oil combines with encaustic, and bodies emerge from dark backgrounds with a suspended theatricality. The irony of earlier works gives way to a more ambiguous tension, where distance and sensuality coexist in an unstable balance. Alongside the paintings, collages derived from a recent performance introduce an additional dimension, constructing a visual lexicon made of fragments, references, and recomposed identities.
A short distance away, Prometeo Gallery opens Saracinesche by Giuseppe Stampone, with a critical text by Ilaria Bernardi. The project stems from a simple yet radical gesture: the shutter as an image of closure and threshold. Stampone overlays it onto masterpieces from art history, meticulously rendered in Bic pen, from Piero della Francesca to Beato Angelico, from Jan van Eyck to Antonello da Messina. The images are not erased, but made partially inaccessible, generating a constant tension between visibility and obstruction. The work thus reflects on our relationship with the gaze and with visual memory, questioning what remains when the image is hindered.
At Boccanera Gallery, the evening coincides with the opening of In Daylight, Fireworks Bloom, a solo exhibition by Yirui Fang. Fang’s painting emerges from the encounter between Western tradition and Chinese visual culture, reworking religious and mythological iconographies into dense and luminous compositions. Light is no longer a transcendent symbolic element, but an energy that moves through the image and alters its structure. Material surfaces and references to calligraphy create an immersive pictorial language, suspended between emotional intensity and formal construction.
This first cluster concludes with Matteo Mauro Studio, presenting the project Interferences by Daniel Pontoriero. The space is conceived more as a research laboratory than a traditional gallery, in continuity with Mauro’s practice linked to contemporary engraving and computational technologies. The project unfolds within an experimental dimension, where the dialogue between digital practices and manual processes defines an open field of exploration.
In the neighborhood: expansions and new routes
Moving away from the main core, the evening opens toward other spaces that help redefine the geography of Lambrate Art Night.
At ArtNoble Gallery, in Via Ponte di Legno 9, Un secreto se apaga entre mis manos by Amparo Viau opens, curated by Benedetta Casini. The project unfolds as a large-scale environmental installation: a single drawing, approximately forty meters long, traverses the exhibition space, transforming the surface into an experience.
Intertwined bodies, narrative fragments, and suspended images build a complex visual structure in which drawing enters into dialogue with performative and cinematic references. The sequence unfolds in three moments, tension, transition, and expansion, without ever closing into a linear narrative. Chalk, a fragile and unstable material, makes evident the temporal nature of the work, which is constructed as a trace rather than a final form.
At Via degli Orombelli 15, Candy Snake Gallery presents The Peacock, a solo exhibition by Israel Larios, curated by Arianna Baldoni, opening on March 18 and on view until April 11.
The project investigates the construction of the image as a symbolic and narrative device, where identity and representation intertwine in layered ways. Larios’s works develop a dense and allusive language in which the visible is never fully immediate, but requires a gaze that moves across different levels of interpretation.
The title The Peacock introduces an ambivalent dimension: the image as both display and mask. Within this unstable balance, the works oscillate between apparition and withdrawal, constructing a visual system grounded in the tension between surface and depth. The curatorial approach by Arianna Baldoni accompanies the exhibition, reinforcing its structure and guiding the reading of the works as part of a coherent and relational whole.
Finally, at Via Gozzano 4, Banquet Gallery presents Echoes, a two-person exhibition by LaMar Robillard and Justin Randolph Thompson, curated by Jermay Michael Gabriel.
The project constructs a space of resonance between different practices, where the works do not simply coexist but actively transform one another. Thompson’s practice addresses the representation of African female figures within the European operatic canon, highlighting dynamics of exoticisation and the construction of imagery. Through textile sculptures, sound, and painting, his work reflects on the persistence of images and their capacity to convey systems of power.
In parallel, Robillard’s work introduces a more perceptual and psychological dimension, connected to memory and the redefinition of identity boundaries. The works construct an open field in which meanings and readings continuously shift through relation.
A temporary geography of art
During Lambrate Art Night, the exhibitions do not simply follow one another: they contaminate each other.
Moving from one space to another constructs a fragmented yet coherent narrative, made of returns, interruptions, and transformations. For one evening, Lambrate becomes an open device: a way of thinking about art not as a series of isolated episodes, but as a shared, diffused, and moving experience.
Visitor Information
Lambrate Art Night #45
Location: Milan - Lambrate district
When: Thursday, April 9, 2026 - from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tickets: reserve your spot here
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