The Kunsthalle Wien presents the first exhibition in Austria by Guglielmo Castelli (born 1987 in Turin). The exhibition at Karlsplatz features entirely new works, including paintings, sculptures, and a site-specific mural.

“I am interested in the idea that the pictorial body, even when fragmented, remains a single body. Just like in theatre or cinema, there is a scene before and a scene after, but what happens in this moment has a limited temporality. […] This is the part that interests me: the fact that it is a representation that is essentially a frame, one that constitutes a universe of its own.”
— Guglielmo Castelli

Castelli, who trained in theatrical set design, has developed a distinctive iconography that draws on the history of painting, architecture, and literature. His compositions are characterized by an earthy, nocturnal color palette and a fluid, dreamlike quality that often makes them difficult to locate in space and time. Together, they suggest a fragmentary narrative that the artist himself compares to filmmaking, where each still image “contains a universe of its own.