For Damiano Colombi (Bressanone, 1994; lives and works in Venice), drawing is not an image but a means of navigating and finding one’s way through space.
The pattern, the most recent element in his practice, is a structure for understanding space: a form before form, capable of containing a volume that has yet to emerge.
His abstraction does not arise from a departure from reality, but from an extreme synthesis of the landscape, condensed into line, curve, intersection and field of colour.

The landscape does not disappear: it remains as a structural memory, embedded in dense, layered colours and in traces of paths, coordinates and deviations.
The works thus construct open systems and mental territories in which the landscape is not merely something to be observed, but something one moves through—and is transformed by.

Housed in a former pharmacy, the exhibition heightens the diagnostic dimension of the work: the lines evoke clinical charts, while the overlapping layers recall medical scans or X-rays.
Backlighting passes through the sheets, revealing a landscape concealed beneath the surface. Acrylic applied over wax also behaves like living tissue, resembling an organic fluid, skin or a membrane in a constant state of transformation. Drawing becomes an analytical tool that seeks to reveal not the appearance of things, but their invisible structure.

Through this tension between map and organism, landscape and diagnosis, surface and depth, Colombi’s practice explores the question of orientation in an age when our coordinates seem constantly to elude us.