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Dreams in Motion, Mental Trains and Inner Maps: Lelario’s Art on the Move
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Andrea Lelario, Aurigae, 2013-2024, Etching, burin, drypoint on copper I Photo: Ottavio Celestino

Imagine a train not bound for Milan or Naples, but one that runs from the subconscious to the universe. It’s the visionary locomotive of Andrea Lelario - artist, soul-cartographer - who, through engravings, drawings, and sketchbooks, leads viewers on a journey with no fixed stops, where dream, memory, and matter elegantly merge in mystery. In his new exhibition project, Lelario stages a true symbolic voyage. Two model trains, perfectly scaled and rich in imaginative energy, travel through mental landscapes etched in copper and pulsating graphite. But this is not merely about technique - though his is flawless - it’s about visions: the ones that bloom in his now-famous sketchbooks, real atlases of the unconscious. Between Jung and the Grand Tour, the artist traces inner constellations and emotional galaxies. His maps don’t point to places but to states of being. And his marks - subtle, branching, poetic - bloom on paper like thoughts in transformation. Already a presence at the Venice Biennale and in museums across the globe, Lelario invites us aboard this train of imagination. No ticket required - just open eyes and a heart willing to get beautifully lost.

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