Alexander Brodsky (Moscow, 1955) is a Russian architect-artist belonging to the so-called Moscow school of Paper Architecture. His work is often defined as an "architecture of the imagination", combining a historicist approach with the fantasy and reality of Soviet and post-Soviet urban planning.

From the beginning of his work, Brodsky was interested in the depth of ideas, vision, as well as depth of field. For his first institutional exhibition in Italy, the artist transforms the exhibition space into a landscape that reflects the imaginative environments that characterize his paper architecture, intertwining the boundaries between public and private, between the materiality of the past, the present and the future. Brodsky presents a series of tables and a panel entirely composed of transparent containers, some of which hide small objects. The walls host a series of drawings made on paper rolls and engravings: some depict industrialized urban landscapes with mountainous backdrops, while others floating objects that develop like a stream of (sub)consciousness. Still others are presented horizontally: sequences of animal-like human profiles or human-like animal profiles, to which is added a row of geometric human bodies. A group of light-boxes scratched with figurative and abstract signs recall the window element. The tables, softly lit, serve as devices for displaying a series of raw clay sculptures, with the shapes of buildings and everyday objects, characteristic of Brodsky's practice and created in Rome in the weeks preceding the exhibition.