Book launch: Antonio Marchetti Lamera, Pensare come un’ombra (Allemandi, Turin 2026)
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara
Saturday, November 21, 2026, 6.00 pm | Sala Morone, Verona
Verona | On Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 6.00 pm, in the Sala Morone – Convent of San Bernardino in Verona, there will be a presentation of the new monograph dedicated to the work of the artist Antonio Marchetti Lamera (Bergamo, 1965), titled Pensare come un’ombra (Allemandi, Turin 2026).
The event will feature the participation and contributions of: Roberto Lacarbonara, curator of the volume; Massimo Mattioli, art critic and author of the foreword; Francesco Sutton, principal – Studio la Città and Antonio Marchetti Lamera, artist.
For over thirty years, Antonio Marchetti Lamera has been exploring the nature of the visible, shifting his focus from the representation of reality to the perceptual conditions that determine its manifestation. From his early works of the 1990s, constructed through textures and symbolic patterns, his artistic journey has evolved towards a rarefaction of the image, to the point where light, shadow and time have become his principal tools of inquiry.
The book – curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, with a foreword by Massimo Mattioli – traces this journey through paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos, in which the artist explores variations in perspective, form and chiaroscuro. Iridescent backgrounds, chromatic layering and reflections introduce a shifting dimension, in which what appears never takes on a definitive form: the shadow, the central focus of a wide-ranging visual and philosophical exploration, becomes an immaterial structure, a trace of passage and a measure of time.
This exploration is interwoven with scientific and astronomical references – ranging from afterimages to celestial mechanics – alongside a civic and political sensibility that emerges in the artist’s focus on architecture and the public square as a shared, communal space. Pensare come un’ombra means inhabiting the threshold between presence and absence, matter and light, space and duration.
The volume features critical essays by Peter Assmann, Neylan Bağcıoğlu İzgi, Giorgio Bonomi, Daniele Capra, Claudio Cerritelli, Carmelo Cipriani, Alberto Fiz, Matteo Galbiati, Angela Madesani and Gianluca Marziani.
Visitors will be able to view Antonio Marchetti Lamera’s solo exhibition, Piazze d’Italia, from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm at Studio La Città, Lungadige Galtarossa 21, Verona.
Antonio Marchetti Lamera, Pensare come un’ombra
Curated by Roberto Lacarbonara
(Allemandi, Turin 2026)
192 pp., €35.00
Saturday, November 21, 2026, 6.00 pm
Sala Morone, Convent of San Bernardino, Stradone Antonio Provolo 28, Verona
Free entry
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