Zona d’ombra begins a series of exhibitions in which young critics present young artists. Saretto Cincinelli and Rita Salvaggio focus attention on three possible directions toward which contemporary art is heading.

One is of a poetic nature: objects as memory-presences, fragments worn down by time or dense, black matter in the work of Affinati and Deval; another emphasizes conceptual processes and ironic intentions in Mugnaini and La Vergata; and a third is fully committed to a positive pursuit—reduction-construction through formative processes—in the work of Querci and Fabiani.