Pietro Ruffo: Cosmogenesis

Pietro Ruffo's architectural training profoundly shapes his vision. He draws with ink, graphite, and ballpoint pen on paper, his medium of choice, which he then cuts with a scalpel and suspends using pins, creating intricate three dimensional surfaces, resembling to architectural models.

His artistic approach is a palimpsest—an accumulation of historical, spatial, and symbolic layers—and his work explores the intersections of art, cartography, geopolitical history, myths, nature and cosmology.

The result is a stratified work in which multiple readings and semantic layers investigate the boundaries of universality, particularly the history of humanity and its relationship and impact with nature.

Cosmogenesis refers to the origins and unfolding of the universe, connecting the intimate scale of human experience with the vast rhythms of the cosmos.

This exhibition presents the most extensive survey of Pietro Ruffo’s practice to date, across all the galleries at Serlachius Manor and the corridor to the permanent collection.

A series of bespoke installations have been created for Serlachius Manor, inviting the audience in an immersive experience through perspective and time.

Pietro Ruffo's exhibition is co-curated by Butterfly and David Chaumet of Butterfly Art News.