Matteo Mauro Studio opens Lambrate Art Night Nr.46 with a special exhibition dedicated to Chilean artist Patricio Parada, presenting a new series of work that redefines the boundaries between jewellery, sculpture, and material research. Chilean by origin and nomadic in spirit, Patricio Parada approaches his artistic practice as a true vocation. Each piece unfolds as a creative cosmos in which matter becomes a vehicle for meaning, elevated into a neo-baroque and almost spiritual dimension.
Parada draws from the traditions of indigenous South American cultures, where objects carry layered physical, social, and symbolic significance. What emerges is fine jewellery from a deep reflection on daily life and its impact on the human condition. Within Matteo Mauro Studio, Parada’s pieces are presented not merely as adornments but as embodied sculptures, positioned at the intersection of intimacy and monumentality. At the core of Parada’s research lies a radical rethinking of material. Working primarily through lost-wax casting, he treats metal not as a static medium but as a living, mutable substance, capable of expansion, erosion, and transformation. The rose-toned works featured in this exhibition articulate a sensibility that is simultaneously opulent and unstable. Ornamentation, in Parada’s language, is never applied, it is generated from within the material itself.
For the second time, Matteo Mauro engages in a direct dialogue with Patricio Parada, after Corina Rhapsody (2022), Rose Baroque deepens this exchange through a compelling conceptual resonance. Where Mauro’s practice is grounded in engraving, stratification, and accumulation, Parada operates through liquefaction and crystallisation. These two distinct methodologies converge in a shared investigation, using matter as language, surface as a site of inscription, and transformation as a generative art. This juxtaposition expands the discourse around contemporary material practices, reinforcing the studio’s ongoing exploration of sign, gesture, and surface.
Parada’s positions the body of work not just as a site of display, but as an active participant in the artwork’s meaning, where tactile experience, symbolism, and time converge.
Join us on 20th May 2026 from 18:00 to 21:00 to experience a unique encounter between jewellery, sculpture, and the evolving language of matter.