A very thin veil unites marble and light, the Baroque gesture and photographic intuition, the sculpted material and the fog that envelops the landscape. It is from this unexpected resonance that Disappear is born. Antonio Corradini and Luigi Ghirri, the exhibition dedicated by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia to two authors distant in time, but surprisingly close in their ability to transform the act of seeing into a threshold, an apparition, a mystery.

The exhibition, curated by Elisabetta Dal Carlo, Lara Marchese, Marta Savaris, Babet Trevisan with Monica De Vincenti, starts from a recent discovery: the marble medallion with a veiled female face, found in the Foundation's deposits and now recognized as an autographed work by Antonio Corradini. This sculpture - identified as a Veiled Faith - for the first time juxtaposes the terracotta sketch for the Veiled Christ, commissioned for the Sansevero Chapel in Naples and now housed in the Museum and Charterhouse of San Martino in Naples.

Corradini passed away prematurely in 1752, and it was Giuseppe Sanmartino who created the famous sculpture, deviating from the original model. Along with the sketch and the medallion, the marble bust, another Veiled Faith, from the collections of Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice is also exhibited: three variations of the same gesture, three stages in the search for an author capable of making marble intangible, vibrant, transparent as air.