Antonio Schiavano — Beauty Beyond the Mirror

Antonio Schiavano — Beauty Beyond the Mirror

Venue: Palazzo Lombardia — Oasi Life Experience, Milan

Curator: Adriana Lohmann

Dates: 13–19 April 2026

In this exhibition Antonio Schiavano questions the visual codes of beauty photography. Works originally conceived to convey perfection and control are physically altered with material interventions that change their surface and representational role.

• Focus: the face as a field of tension where the image no longer simply represents but resists, transforms and dissolves.
• Techniques: abrasions, erasures and stratifications applied directly to photographic prints.
• Approach: subtraction used as a critical language; deliberate error as a tool to open new interpretative possibilities.

The altered photographs relinquish their reassuring function to become prompts for reflection on contemporary aesthetics and the limits of the perfect image. Recommended for visitors interested in the intersection of photographic practice and material intervention in contemporary art.

Address: Palazzo Lombardia, Piazza Città di Lombardia 1, Milan