Anteguerra. Painting the Silence Before the Collapse

A deep sense of suspension permeates Anteguerra, Pietro Geranzani’s powerful pictorial installation. Three large canvases, joined like a single held breath, evoke a present haunted by unease and the looming echo of impending danger. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the artist constructs a visual experience charged with symbolic tension, where painting becomes a meditation on the human condition in times of threat. With a distinctive style that blends iconographic memory and contemporary urgency, Geranzani alternates images of torn bodies, faceless soldiers, and mass graves. Yet he goes beyond mere documentation: his painting, steeped in cultured references - from Beato Angelico to Bosch, from Friedrich to Cole - becomes an exploration of emptiness and time. At the center of the triptych, a barren crater smolders beneath a copper-colored sky: it is the heart of the unsaid, a space where the possibility of end and rebirth hangs in fragile balance. The exhibition is completed by twenty preparatory drawings and with the display of the biblical text from the Book of Ecclesiastes.