AriaAcquaTerra. From Environment to Landscape

From Monday, September 1st to Friday, September 5th inclusive, the Palazzo Viani Dugnani venue, located in Via Ruga 44 – Verbania, will be closed to the public to allow for the safe packing and transfer of 43 works that will be exhibited in the show “Paul Troubetzkoy. Le prince sculpteur” at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The venue will reopen as usual on September 6th.

Exhibition Overview

From June 28, Palazzo Viani Dugnani in Verbania hosts AriaAcquaTerra – From Environment to Landscape, an exhibition that brings together contemporary art and 19th-century masterpieces in an evocative visual dialogue.

Featuring around twenty works by four acclaimed contemporary artists from the Piedmont region, the exhibition explores the elements that define the natural world—Air, Water, Earth—and how they evolve from environmental forces into full-fledged landscapes.

Paintings and photographs are carefully integrated with the historical collection of the Museo del Paesaggio’s Pinacoteca, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking experience.

The Artists & Their Works

Daniele Galliano (Pinerolo, 1961)
Galliano captures the spirit of the mountains in bold, expressionist strokes. His landscapes, filled with vivid blues and greens, are populated by fleeting human presences—subtle, almost ghost-like—adding emotional depth to nature’s grandeur.

Pierluigi Pusole (Turin, 1963)
Pusole’s works are fluid and dreamlike, inspired by lakes, skies, and mountain reflections. His painterly style blurs boundaries between solid and liquid, abstract and real, evoking nature’s ever-changing surface.

Andrea Massaioli (Turin, 1960)
Massaioli moves toward abstraction, yet his monumental canvases retain a distant trace of the landscapes that inspire them. Natural scenery, once background, becomes the hidden protagonist of each work—suggested rather than shown.

Maura Banfo (Turin, 1969)
Working with photography in a painterly way, Banfo focuses her lens on water’s surface—its ripples, reflections, and motion. Her images capture the essence of fluidity and perception, transforming simple views into poetic compositions.