On September 16th, 2026, Matteo Mauro Studio will take part in the next Lambrate Art Night by hosting artist Waro for an intervention within his studio, titled ‘Excursus’. The exhibition will open from 18:00 to 21:00 at Matteo Mauro Studio, Via Massimiano 27, 20134 Milan, joining galleries and independent art spaces across Lambrate for an evening dedicated to contemporary art.
For Excursus, Waro incorporates two artworks into Matteo Mauro Studio. Displaying his artworks brings his distinctive visual language into dialogue with Mauro’s studio and artworks. The exhibition forms part of the wider programme of Lambrate Art Night, the recurring neighbourhood initiative that brings together galleries, artists, studios and visitors within one of Milan’s most active contemporary art districts.
The exhibition is accompanied by a curatorial text by artist Alessandro D’Aquila:
Waro is not simply an artist: he is a researcher. The object of his research, however, is not the past, but a future so distant that it seems both futuristic and prehistoric. With his artworks, he tells us of a world that, millions of years from now, will be very similar to the circuits that inhabit our technological objects today. Tubes that intertwine like vital viscera, inhabited by a population of Yu, the humans of the future, also made of cables and protuberances. The reality he wants to describe to us, however, is not only dystopian, but is also made up of what has always united populations past and present: rituals, beliefs, hierarchies, and the need to leave messages.
This exhibition presents two types of artworks.
A large black-and-white piece, typical of his research and the artist’s debut. A 5 x 1.5 m painting that aims to be a gigantic fresco of the future seen through his eyes. An unexpected teeming of connections that become a persistent part of the landscape. In front of an artwork like this, like a huge Delacroix painting, one never stops finding new details, new perspectives. Time, in front of this painting, even projected into a future era, never seems to be enough, leaving the viewer alone before an immensity proposed and never fully explained. Disturbing and reassuring, depending on the viewer’s state of mind.
In contrast to this mammoth snapshot are some of Waro‘s latest artworks , small paintings that the artist himself defines as “quick.” In these slices of viscera, almost like blurry photographs, the artist begins to make us understand that his previous artworks were merely conceptual maps and that his vision of the future is instead also made of nuances, volumes, and liquids. Confronted by these “quick paintings,” we have the distinct sensation of being able to grasp a truth, a future that the artist, however, makes uncertain, precisely because the works are deliberately blurred. The viscera slip away from our eyes, going elsewhere.
Here the artist also seeks to critique our current way of conceiving art. We attend exhibitions distractedly, driven more by the desire to build public relations than by the desire to delve deeper into an artwork. This is why, according to Waro, we look at artworks distractedly today. In his “fast paintings,” Waro aims to invert this idea and, paradoxically, have the paintings themselves look back at us quickly, only to then escape the next viewer.
EXCURSUS therefore aims to be a brief summary of the beginning and end, at least current, of the artist’s research, who from geologist of the future transforms himself into a transmitter of an emotion and a conception of art that, more than futuristic, ultimately seems profoundly current.”
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WARO — Excursus
16 September 2026, 19:00–21:00
Matteo Mauro Studio
Via Massimiano 27, 20134 Milan
@MatteoMauroStudio // @Waro_Studio
