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Guglielmo Maggini

My form arises in your sinking

Curated by Giuseppe Armogida
On May 12th, 2026, z2o Sara Zanin will inaugurate, in the spaces of via Alessandro Volta 34, Rome, My form arises in your sinking, the second solo exhibition of Guglielmo Maggini, curated by Giuseppe Armogida. The exhibition marks the artist’s first engagement with the architecture of the gallery’s new exhibition space developing a unified project that brings together a new body of works created between 2025 and 2026. Here, matter becomes a site of passage: ceramic and resin intertwine, while new research trajectories emerge through the introduction of glass, already present as a latent tension in the liquidity of his forms. At the core of the project – which unfolds as an immersion driven by the urgency of contact – are the themes of inheritance and shipwreck, understood not as opposing conditions but as interwoven movements.
The artist works with ceramic as a material to be traversed both physically and symbolically, shaping a gesture that carries the measure of an embrace: an embrace directed toward art history and, in particular, toward the twentieth- century ceramic tradition – from Lucio Fontana onward – but also an intimate gesture in which historical memory and personal memory merge without hierarchies. The result is a free and layered reinterpretation in which the past is never quoted but continuously transformed and set back into circulation. In this sense, the exhibition marks a moment of awareness and maturity in Maggini’s practice: the ceramic medium is examined in its technical and linguistic possibilities through the introduction of maiolica, a pictorial practice that moves through matter, the use of third-firing gold luster, and an increasing attention to the installation dimension.
Sculpture thus opens up to architectural space, becoming environment, rhythm, relation. It is not about holding back what is sinking, but about passing through it: giving form to what remains, and from there, perhaps, beginning again. Guglielmo Maggini (b. 1992) is an artist who lives and works in Rome. His practice lies at the intersection of installation and sculpture. Maggini’s research captures the passage from one world to another: a world of color, at times exuberant; a world of epiphanies; of forms that no longer contain something but instead become carriers of what has been forgotten. Natural plastic materials such as clay, along with synthetic ones like rubber, resins, and, more broadly, the realm of plastic polymers, merge in a sensitive exploration of the relationship between life and death, in a journey between historical and personal memory.
Space is conceived as a plastic volume, imaginary, yet above all psychosomatic. The relationships between viewer, artwork, and architecture become the core of Maggini’s artistic process: on one hand, the physical space inevitably shapes the visitor’s sensory perception; on the other, the artistic intervention produces deep and decisive transformations in the objective perception of the external world. After graduating in Architecture, he moved to London, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of the Arts London – Camberwell College of Arts.