Artist: Alessandro Roma

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix presents 'La pelle del paesaggio' by Alessandro Roma. This solo exhibition features five large-format paintings that create a loosely immersive installation on the gallery’s ground floor, accompanied by a video performance that invites the audience into the artist’s personal universe.

The ground-floor installation forms a protective "cocoon" that may, unexpectedly, evoke a sense of trespassing into a private, forbidden world meant to be kept secret. Towering from the gallery’s irregular walls, these works envelop the viewer in an intimate, organic environment. This organic quality stems from the large, plant-like forms―figures that inhabit the canvas like oversized butterflies, reigning over an eerie, mostly nocturnal underworld. Roma refers to these paintings as "landscapes” which are effectively visualisations of his innermost psychological workings.

In the basement gallery, the artist debuts his video work, 'La pelle del paesaggio' (The Skin of the Landscape). In this experimental piece, Roma pushes his concept to the extreme, aligning his metaphysical universe with the physical natural world. Across five movements―Mountain, River, Tree, Sun, and Root―a performer animates the paintings of Roma’s intimate world, depicting the struggle and joy of existing as "part of the whole." Accompanied by the original music of Guillermo Lago for saxophone (Caroline Halleck) and choir ( Groupe Vocale Viriditas), the work takes on the allure of a chamber opera. It serves as a reminder that nature is the most grandiose theatre of all, and that the mind constantly assimilates the environments we inhabit.