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Fata Morgana: memorie dall’invisibile, 2025 | a cura di / curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Daniel Birnbaum, Marta Papini | Electa, Pesci rossi | ita/eng |
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Book Launch With Beatrice Trussardi, Massimiliano Gioni, Gianfranco Maraniello, Marta Papini Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 6:00 PM
An exhibition conceived and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi Palazzo Morando Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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On the occasion of the exhibition Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible (conceived and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi for Palazzo Morando | Costume Moda Immagine, open to the public free of charge until November 30, 2025), the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi launches the homonymous book, published by Electa in the Pesci rossi series. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 28 at 6:00 PM (Palazzo Morando, conference room) featuring a conversationbetween Massimil Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Daniel Birnbaum, and Marta Papini, the bilingual volume (248 pages) include the preface by Beatrice Trussardi, the curatorial text and essays by Jennifer Higgie, Vivienne Roberts, and Julia Voss, together with a new translation of André Breton’s poem Fata Morgana, weaving together history, art, and mysticism. Richly illustrated with more than eighty color images, the book explores the intersections between art, spiritualism, esotericism, and feminism, tracing the voices of artists, mediums, and visionaries from the nineteenth century to the present day. The exhibition Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible is conceived and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi specifically for the spaces of Palazzo Morando, a museum dedicated to the history of the city of Milan and once the residence of Countess Lydia Caprara Morando Attendolo Bolognini (b. 1876, Alexandria; d. 1945, Vedano al Lambro, Monza Brianza). Around the turn of the twentieth century, in her opulent quarters, the Countess put together a vast library on the occult, with spiritual and alchemical themes, now housed in the Archivio Storico Civico and Biblioteca Trivulziana. The title of the project evokes the legendary figure of Fata Morgana, the mythical enchantress of the Arthurian cycle, guardian of secrets and illusions, often associated with mysterious places such as Avalon—the liminal island between the world of the living and the dead. In the collective imagination, she is a powerful, ambivalent figure: at once benevolent and merciless, a keeper of enchantments, spells, and deceptions, but also, in more recent interpretations, a symbol of freedom and defiance—a woman who lives by her own rules, unbound by the constraints of society. The exhibition also draws inspiration from the poem Fata Morgana, composed by André Breton in 1940 in Marseille while fleeing Nazi-occupied France. In those visionary pages—between sudden apparitions and enigmatic oracles—Breton conjured a realm where the visible and the invisible merge, where dream and reality intertwine until their boundaries dissolve. It is from this imagery, suspended between enchantment and revelation, that Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible takes shape, conceived as a museum within a museum, unfolding through the evocative rooms of Palazzo Morando as a journey between the known and the unknown. Through more than two hundred works (286)—including paintings, photographs, films, documents, drawings, sculptures, and ritual objects—the exhibition brings together a constellation of seventy-eight figures: mediums, mystics, visionaries, and contemporary artists who have dared to open thresholds between the tangible world and unseen dimensions. The exhibition explores the fertile intersections between visual art and mysticism, paranormal phenomena, spiritualism, esotericism, Theosophy, and symbolic practices, revealing how inquiries once deemed eccentric or marginal have possessed the power to upend established conventions and reimagine art’s place in the world. From these encounters unfolds an atlas of the invisible—an imaginative map populated by ecstasies, apparitions, and trance-born visions that reveal the creative power of experiences capable of reshaping the very boundaries of art. Far from seeking to prove the existence of the supernatural, Fata Morgana instead reflects on how, from the nineteenth century to the present, these practices have mirrored collective anxieties and desires, questioning the fragile balance between knowledge and mystery, faith and science, memory and imagination. Featuring seventy-eight figures among historical and contemporary artists and intellectuals, Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible invites us to reconsider the role of the marginal, the inexplicable, and the visionary in artistic creation. Conceived by a curatorial team of outstanding international experience—bringing together, for the first time in Italy, two former Directors of the Venice Biennale—the project transforms Palazzo Morando into a portal to other dimensions, suspended between past and present, between imagination and reality. The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi extends its deepest gratitude to the patrons who share its vision and support its projects as members of Il Cerchio. Thanks go to DELTALIGHT for its support in the production of the exhibition. |
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Fata Morgana: Memories of the Invisible Hilma af Klint, Eileen Agar, Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz), Giulia Andreani, Kenneth Anger, Antonin Artaud, Wilhelmine Assmann, Annie Besant, Hildegard von Bingen, Kerstin Brätsch, André Breton, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Marian Spore Bush, Claude Cahun, Chiara Camoni, Milly Canavero, Guglielmo Castelli, Ferdinand Cheval, Judy Chicago, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Maya Deren, Fernand Desmoulin, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Cecilia Edefalk, Max Ernst, Minnie Evans, Madame Favre, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Chiara Fumai, Dominique Fung, Linda Gazzera, Madge Gill, Anna Hackel, Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz, Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt Watts, Victor Hugo, Hector Hyppolite, Emma Jung, Corita Kent, Pierre Klossowski, Emma Kunz, Ethel Le Rossignol, Sheila Legge, Augustin Lesage, Lars Olof Loeld, Goshka Macuga, Diego Marcon, James Tilly Matthews, Henry Michaux, Lee Miller, Jacob Mohr, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jill Mulleady, Nadja (Léona Delcourt), Louise Nevelson, Eusapia Palladino, Paulina Peavy, Stanisłava Popielska, Carol Rama, Man Ray, Victorien Sardou, Marianna Simnett, Hélene Smith (Catherine-Elise Müller), Kiki Smith, Lily Stockman, Rosemarie Trockel, Gustave Pierre Marie Le Goarant de Tromelin, Kaari Upson, Andra Ursuța, Giuseppe Versino, Vanda Vieira-Schmidt, Günter Weseler, Johanna Natalie Wintsch, Adolf Wölfli, Anna Zemánkovà, Unica Zürn. care of the redaction please follow us also on the website: www.globalmedianews.info
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