From January 19 to March 1, 2026, the GNAMC | Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, hosts Promenade, the solo exhibition by Maurizio Cannavacciuolo (Naples 1954), which is part of a series of exhibitions related to artist donations.

Set at the beginning of the permanent collection path of the GNAMC, in the room dedicated to novelties, the exhibition is curated by Marco Tonelli with Angelo Bucarelli and organized with the support of Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio (Milan/Todi) and Open Capital.

The artist presents to the public an installation composed of 4 large oil paintings on canvas in black and white, in front of which there are as many painted ceramic vases, all created between 2018 and 2022.

The exhibition features Excelsior (2018) and Hungry Angry Bird (2019), both 2 meters high by 3 meters wide, in addition to the monumental Ophtalmosaurus fugax (2018) which measures almost 10 meters wide by 2 meters high. The work depicts a sort of Byzantine royal parade, a walk (hence the title of the project, Promenade) in a magical garden with interrupted paths, an area of ​​semantic free exchange where all kinds of visual signals and puzzles (optical, illusionistic, ornamental, human faces and self-portraits of the artist himself) seem to compose a jagged mosaic and indicate a path that actually leads in no direction.

In addition to these, there is Metempsychosis, Circle Song Seven from 2023 (2x2 meters) which, at the end of the exhibition, will be donated to the State and will become part of the permanent collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

Almost recreating a sort of small visual shock, typical of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo's iconographies and non-linear combinations, four brightly colored glazed ceramic vases, titled Be very happy! (2022), just over a meter high, created by Davide Servadei at Ceramica Gatti in Faenza, serve as a counterpoint to the black and white paintings.

The underlying idea of Promenade is to hyperstimulate the optical and articulated space of Maurizio Cannavacciuolo's rich iconographies, true visual metaphors of the current world, painted according to overlapping schemes designed with extreme precision and elegance.