There's an intimate magic in looking inside an oven, an everyday gesture that Fulvio Morella has transformed into art. On October 10th and 11th, his works, featured in the "InOltre" exhibition at Palazzo Castellani di Sermeti, will bring this vision of Fulvio Morella to ArtVerona. The nonprofit project Cramum, founded in 2012, which supports artistic excellence in Italy and around the world, and Gaggenau, a manufacturer of high-quality professional appliances and a symbol of technological innovation and "Made in Germany" design, will bring this vision to ArtVerona.
From the window of the new Expressive bakery, a microcosm opens up: warmth enveloping, bread rising, thoughts taking shape and rising, embellished by the famous Star Braille, created by the artist in 2022. As curator Sabino Maria Frassà emphasizes: “'InOltre' is not just the title of an exhibition, but an invitation to transcend the boundaries of the visible and enter the interior dimension, where art, symbol, and thought intertwine in a sensorial and transformative experience. Morella creates an immersive journey in which her Star Braille transforms the language of disability into a poetic and narrative tool. The thought of the Bauhaus is the conceptual linchpin because, as Paul Klee wrote, 'art does not reproduce what is visible, but makes visible what is not always visible.'” Following this vision, Morella blends aesthetics, function, and accessibility in works that do not illustrate the world, but reveal it.
The exhibition, hosted in the elegant halls of Sotheby's building, features a selection of textile works by Fulvio Morella, including the previously unseen "Occhio di stelle," displayed inside the Expressive oven. Reinterpreting Jung, the artist embroiders the message "looking beyond means looking within" onto a night sky. In the deepest spaces of personal consciousness, this opens a reflection on interiority and the emotional and mental landscapes that inhabit us.
“To touch the sky with a finger,” adds Fulvio Morella, “we must first stop being afraid to look at, know, and understand the infinity that each of us holds within us.”
Fulvio Morella, born in Valtellina in 1971, is known for transforming woodturning into the language of contemporary art and Braille into a poetic and narrative tool. In 2022, he created the new alphabet "Braille Stellato," expanding the expressive possibilities of his research and opening new perspectives in the dialogue between art, innovation, and inclusion. In 2023, he received the Alfredo D'Andrade Lifetime Achievement Award, and his works have been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. They are now part of prestigious international collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Warsaw, UNESCO, the Braille Museum in Paris, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 2024, he was invited to Paris to present the "Ailes de mouette" medal, created to celebrate the Olympics and Paralympics and the 100th anniversary of Louis Braille's invention. The artist is currently the protagonist of the project “Limits do not exist,” which sees him involved in exhibitions and cultural events in Paralympic venues in preparation for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
