Matteo Mauro takes part in L’immagine che resta. Cronache di una serata particolare at Prometeo Gallery in Milan, a group exhibition curated by Domenico de Chirico. Opening on June 25th  2026, from 18:30 to 21:00, the exhibition remains on view until August 7th 2026. The show brings together Alessandro Calvaresi, Edoardo Lomi, Elena Quaggiotti, Francesca Perrone, Giulia Mazzoli, Matteo Mauro and Zehra Doğan, creating a dialogue around image, memory, transformation and the fragile persistence of what remains.

In the curatorial text, De Chirico describes the Mauros artworks as “what survives” after loss, change and the passage of time. This idea resonates strongly with Mauro’s practice, in which signs, surfaces and sculptural forms become traces of human presence, cultural memory and contemporary transformation, the critic explains, “Matteo Mauro’s sculptures explore the tension between presence and absence, matter and transformation. They do so through computational modes of representation that reread and reinterpret traditional, classical, and archaic engraving techniques. His forms seem to inhabit a permanent state of becoming, suspended between completion and dissolution. Matter does not appear as static. It acts as a living, polished, and smoothed force, one that continually exceeds its own boundaries and generates images in the passage between what is tangible and what can only be intuited.”

For this exhibition, Matteo Mauro presents artworks from the series Inscriptions on Canvas, Bronze on Canvas and a selection of sculptures. In Inscriptions on Canvas, the artist transforms the painted surface into a layered field of signs. His oil paintings evoke ancient scripts, digital codes, lost alphabets and mental maps, creating a tension between word and image, order and chaos, memory and disappearance. With Bronze on Canvas, Mauro intensifies this research through the encounter between painting and sculpture. Bronze, a material historically associated with monumentality, permanence and collective memory, enters into dialogue with the canvas. The image becomes relief, and the painting becomes an object with weight, body and presence. His sculptures further expand this language into space. They appear as symbolic organisms, mental structures or fragments of a contemporary archaeology, suspended between completion and transformation. In a time shaped by conflict, ecological crisis, polarisation and rapid technological change, Matteo Mauro’s artworks offer a poetic yet critical reflection on how we construct meaning, identity and belonging. At Prometeo Gallery, his artworks invite viewers to slow down and consider what remains, the trace, the gesture, the image and the memory held within matter.