On Saturday, February 21, 2026, starting at 11:00 am, the inauguration of the new exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto is scheduled. The cycle, which will last until the beginning of June 2026, covering the spring period, includes four new exhibition projects: Minor Life. St. Francis and the sanctity of contemporary art, a collective exhibition curated by Gianni and Giuseppe Garrera; Agraria, a solo exhibition by Franco Troiani curated by Saverio Verini; Sculpture speaks louder than words, a solo exhibition by Barry Flanagan curated by Jo Melvin; Lyrical Experimental. Author's Posters, an exhibition that includes a selection of original sketches of the posters from the Experimental Lyric Theater of Spoleto "A.Belli" curated by Raffaella Clerici and Saverio Verini.

With this series of events, Palazzo Collicola offers the public a path that intertwines historical memory and contemporary sensibility, strengthening the dialogue between art and territory.

On the second floor of Palazzo Collicola, the exhibition Sculpture speaks louder than words by Barry Flanagan, curated by Jo Melvin, will be set up, the artist's first solo exhibition in Italy after his passing in 2009. The project, realized thanks to the support and collaboration with The Estate of Barry Flanagan and Plubronze, proposes a selection of works that tell the story of the British artist's research, from his early experiments with heterogeneous materials - sand, ropes, fabrics, plaster, clay, and metals, characterized by an innovative use of form, sound, and light - to figurative bronze sculptures. Trained at the St. Martins School of Art in London in the sixties, Flanagan explored from the beginning the interactions between sculpture, sound, and silence, conceiving artistic material as a multisensory experience. His practice, close to Minimalism and Italian Arte Povera, combines technical rigor, material experimentation, and poetic sensitivity, incorporating natural elements, myth references, and symbolic forms.
The exhibition path highlights how, for Flanagan, sculpture was a tool to connect art and society, with works that dialogue - or "speak," as the title suggests - with space and the visitor through lightness, movement, and sensory suggestions.