Transits as passages, metamorphoses, transformations: the title of Paolo Battistutta’s exhibition at Cris Contini Contemporary gallery
Timed with Frieze London the exhibition enters the wider conversation animating the city’s contemporary art scene that week On large canvases, Battistutta stages a visceral confrontation with painting: matter and thought, gesture and figure push the image beyond its boundaries. Paint becomes psyche—emotion before figure—driven by an informal, impulsive energy. His monumental visages, cut through by vivid chromatic fields, open a journey into interiority: less “beautiful” portraits than raw mirrors of vulnerability, where deformation sharpens insight. The other pole of his work unfolds in the tondos: dynamic, layered masses radiating a primordial energy—arenas of impulses, events and tensions—where the circular form offers unity alongside maximum compositional freedom. Here the ego recedes, form fractures, and an almost iconoclastic impulse advances; painting becomes a transit of body and soul. The exhibition is organised by Cris Contini Contemporary, coordinated by Sandra Sanson, and accompanied by a catalogue published by Grafica Antiga, featuring critical texts by Lorena Gava, Pasquale Lettieri, Cristian Contini, and Fulvio Granocchia.Exhibition details: Title: Paolo Battistutta — TRANSITS Venue: Cris Contini Contemporary, 1 Lonsdale Road W11 2BY, Notting Hill, London Dates: 14 October – 15 November 2025 Vernissage: 14 October 2025 at 6:00
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