The 18th Quadriennale d’Arte di Roma, Fantastica, has recently concluded at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni last month. With a curatorial team including Luca Massimo Barbero and Francesco Bonami, Fantastica brought together 54 contemporary Italian artists featuring 187 works to celebrate the imaginative and symbolic power of Italian art over the past 25 years.

In the section The Time of Images. Images Out of Control?, Emanuela Mazzonis explored the evolution of photography as a medium for revelation, through important works by Francesco Jodice, who presented his film Rivoluzioni (2019), and Giovanni Ozzola, with an impressive site-specific installation echoing the ceilings of early-Renaissance Italian frescoes. Their work reflected the vision of the late Luca Beatrice, former president of the Quadriennale Foundation, whose curatorial insight inspired this edition’s spirit of wonder, disorientation, and rediscovery.