Annamaria Gelmi, GEOMETRIA e NATURA

**Annamaria Gelmi
GEOMETRY and NATURE**

*curated by Federico Sardella
in collaboration with LOOM GALLERY, Milan*

Opening Tuesday, July 7, 2026
From 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

After the exhibition of Alex Dorici, the summer season of 2026 at Dep Art Out continues with Geometry and Nature, an exhibition dedicated to Annamaria Gelmi that presents a site-specific installation designed specifically for this location under the conical roofs of the Dep Art Out trullo.

The exhibition, curated by Federico Sardella and realized in collaboration with Loom Gallery (Milan), is part of the programming at Dep Art Out, confirming this space's vocation to welcome artists' work, encouraging them to engage with its architecture and fostering the creation of works made on-site. Here, among dry-stone walls and open skies, art does not rest: it is put to the test. The trullo becomes a lab, a device, and a stage. A place that not only welcomes but also participates.

The site-specific installation by Annamaria Gelmi arises from this dialogue: a work that the artist herself has chosen to consider a work in progress, open to the possibilities offered by the space. The project includes a ground-level intervention, where a square mirror will be placed surrounded by blue-green elements, in relation to a suspended work made of Japanese paper—a strip about five meters long created in 1978. The transparency of the paper, on whose surface traces of watercolor and chalk appear evoking foliage stirred by the wind, its almost nonexistent weight, the insubstantial structure, and the airy placement, along with the presence of the mirror on the ground, contribute to an additional expansion of space.

As the artist herself notes, the work remains deliberately open to the conditions of the installation: “This installation is to be defined at the time of installation… the strip of Japanese paper can be hung from the ceiling, it can be suspended so that it can be mirrored. Alternatively, I could add a chain also suspended corresponding to the center of the mirror to make a possible idea of infinity in depth tangible…”. This openness is the heart of the project: the work does not close before it is born. It embraces architecture, light, and the movement of surrounding forms. It adapts, breathes, and decides together with the load-bearing structures, which it can insinuate itself into, like ivy.

In the trullo, an ancestral architecture symbolizing balance between man and nature, Annamaria Gelmi's works find an unprecedented resonance. The geometry to which the artist has always referred is not rigidity here, but rhythm. It is order and tension. The circle of stone meets the square of the mirror. The vertical of the paper meets the horizon of the ground, in a dialogue of forms that do not fight but listen to each other.

Geometry and Nature thus relate times, materials, and perceptions: the present and past of the artist, the luminous solidity of reflective materials, and the ethereality of the suspended ones, the perfection of geometric form and the vital substance of nature. Those who enter the trullo are invited to confront the space and their own reflection, becoming part of the artwork.

Annamaria Gelmi, with her rigorous and poetic language, reminds us that nature and geometry are not opposites. They are two ways of observing the same mystery, two forms through which a shared principle of balance and transformation manifests itself.

**Biographical Note**
Annamaria Gelmi (Trento, 1943) lives and works in Trento. After studying at the Art Institute of Trento, at the Brera Academy with Cantatore, and at the Academy of Venice with Saetti, she began in 1968 a research focused on plexiglass, methacrylate, and plastic materials, creating works based on transparency, light, shadow, and relationship with space. In the 1980s, she introduced color and references to classical architecture, while in the 1990s these elements transformed into symbolic signs and into a reflection on space as a mental dimension. At the same time, she created sculptures and installations in iron, stone, brass, and glass. Since 2000, she has primarily developed works in iron, exhibiting in museums, galleries, and institutions in Italy and abroad. She has participated in important international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, Manifesta 7, and numerous sculpture biennials, establishing herself as a significant figure in contemporary Italian art.

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Dep Art OUT
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LOOM GALLERY
www.loomgallery.com | @loom_gallery

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Annamaria Gelmi
www.annamariagelmi.com | @gelmi.annamaria
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