Marcello Maloberti: METAL PANIC

Milan, the sprawling city and the beating heart of Lombard industry, takes time out to reflect at PAC Padiglione d’arte contemporanea: METAL PANIC, with the work of Marcello Maloberti. An exhibition that presents us with a creative universe, a journey back in time and through urban space. Maloberti, an artist who has chosen the city as his workshop, transforms it into a stage on which daily life, with its frenetic pace and its contradictions, becomes a constantly evolving work of art.

A shrewd observer of reality, Maloberti studies the city through a lens that brings to mind neorealism while expressing a dreamlike, almost metaphysical dimension. He travels the streets of a contemporary Milan, scrutinising it with a penetrating gaze in search of fragments of the life experiences, everyday gestures and words suspended in time that serve as the components of his art. His work unfurls in a relentless flow of languages, an expressive polyphony in which photography, video, performance and installation are interwoven to create a single and powerful urban symphony. The exhibition, curated by Diego Sileo, unwinds like a labyrinthine path, an active construction site in which the words communicate with each other and with the public in a play of references and cues. An itinerary that explores the artist’s favourite themes: the poetry of the written word, which recalls the linguistic experiments of Delio Tessa and his Capoverso; it crosses the realms of the soul, where poetry takes form and words are transformed into living matter, where the sacred is hidden within the profane, within the urban landscape with its arrogant architecture.

METAL PANIC, a title that evokes the clamour of the metropolis and creative frenzy of the artist, invites us to push aside the veil of routine, to glimpse the beauty hidden between the folds of daily life, and to confront the chaos that swirls both within and around us. METAL PANIC, from 27 November 2024 to 9 February 2025