Landscape, Again: Cristiano Petrucci

Cris Contini Contemporary in Notting Hill presents Landscape, Again, an exhibition by Italian artist Cristiano Petrucci, in which everyday material is transformed into a vivid, speculative ecosystem.

The works originate from a simple yet radical gesture: the transformation of ping pong balls into lacquered, intensely coloured forms that resemble cells, spores and imagined organisms. Removed from their original function, these lightweight objects become a new sculptural vocabulary — where the familiar shifts into the microscopic, and surface becomes a site of discovery.

Referencing microbial realities as both scientific and philosophical terrain, Petrucci brings attention to what typically escapes the eye. Glossy, chromatically saturated skins evoke invisible worlds in constant mutation, where the boundary between order and chaos is unstable. Each piece appears as a fragment of a larger, autonomous ecosystem: alive, pulsating, yet unmistakably artificial.

Scale is deliberately deceptive. What seems small holds immense complexity; what appears playful carries a meditation on the deep structures of reality. As in biological microcosms, everything is relational — contact, proliferation and temporary balance shape the work’s inner logic. Through colour, repetition and material transformation, the exhibition invites viewers to slow down, recalibrate their gaze, and consider what exists beneath the threshold of the visible.

The exhibition opens on 7 May with a live sonic performance, Frequencies in Proliferation, in which Petrucci activates the works through an improvised dialogue using the saxophone. Translating visual rhythm into sound, the performance turns the gallery into a resonant environment — where each note becomes contact, each pause a root.

Visitors are welcome to attend the opening performance and return throughout the run to experience this “minimal universe” as an ever-expanding landscape of form, colour and perception.