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Ringing Saturn, the first exhibition in Italy by California-based artist Ariana Papademetropoulos (b. 1990, Los Angeles), explores the idea of paintings as mediumship; as portals to worlds where science, pseudo-science, physics, planetary, magnetic, astrological and psychic fields are channelled into landscapes of materialized imagination.

The title of the exhibition riffs on Margot and Rudolf Wittkower’s “Born under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists” (1963) a well-known dissertation on the embrace of eccentricity that came to distinguish the skilled artisan, who worked under the …