The solo exhibition “Nicola Nannini. It’s not dark yet” featuring sixteen works by the Bolognese artist opens on 12 June 2025, at the two Bologna locations of the Unipol Group’s corporate museum CUBO.
The exhibition, which ends on 4 October, reflects on the nature of landscape not only as a representation of reality, but also as space for the construction of memory and layered perceptions.
In the show - and the dedicated catalogue - the paintings dialogue with an original text written especially by winner of the 2016 Premio Campiello literary prize Simona Vinci, giving life to a flow of real and imaginary voices that emerge from buildings, streets, and passers-by, mixing territory, history and subjectivity in an exploration of vision and interpretation.
The exhibition itinerary winds through the two CUBO locations in Bologna: the venue in Torre Unipol hosts the section dedicated to night landscapes, while the section on display at the venue in Porta Europa focuses on daytime landscapes.
The project reflects on the nature of landscape as a cultural device: not only a representation of reality, it is a symbolic space in which memories, perceptions, and personal and collective experiences are stratified. Landscape, in this context, becomes a mental space, not objective, not neutral, but always filtered by subjective perception and the overwriting of time; a meeting point between memory, history and identity.
Each scene represents an opportunity to slow down, observe carefully, and enter an intricate web of signs and meanings. In an age dominated by speed and the incessant flow of images that pass by without leaving a trace, taking a moment to truly see means restoring depth to the experience, to what appears ephemeral, and recognising that every fragment, every detail, every passer-by has a story, a presence, a narrative potential.
The exhibition thus invites visitors to observe, to recognise themselves, to project their own memories and imagine other possible stories.
