Gianfranco Baruchello.
Possible Worlds

The Exhibition Gianfranco Baruchello. Possible Worlds presented a selection of works by the artist (Livorno, August 29, 1924 – Rome, January 14, 2023) both inside and outside Villa Farnesina, in an unprecedented dialogue between contemporary art and Renaissance heritage.

As visitors moved through the rooms frescoed by Raphael and his school, the exhibition created connections between Baruchello’s poetic, political, and symbolic visions and the iconographies of the past.

His installations—paintings, objects, sculptures, and moving images—explore universal themes such as history, memory, the psyche, and the environment. The exhibition featured emblematic works such as Il Fiume, Murmur, Una casa in fil di ferro, Monumento ai non eroi, Oh, Rocky Mountains Columbine, La storia ci guarda, and Giftpflanzen, Gefahr! These were set in dialogue with spaces such as the Loggia of Galatea and the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche.

The historical layering of the villa thus became common ground between Raphael and Baruchello, between the Renaissance and the contemporary world, where past and present reflected each other in “possible worlds” to be explored.