Casa MB is pleased to present Forms in Formation: Across Image, Matter, and Memory, a group exhibition featuring the work of Alice Faloretti, Ezio Gribaudo, and Mattia Sinigaglia. The exhibition opens on April 16 and runs through May 16 by appointment in Milan, Italy. The show brings together three Italian artistic practices across different generations not to define form, but to ask how it comes into being.
What connects these artists is not a shared language but a shared suspicion that form is never simply given. It is constructed through time, mediation, and perception. The works gathered here do not present fixed images. They propose forms still in the process of becoming.
In Alice Faloretti’s work, images shift and overlap, generating unstable fields of perception that blur the boundaries between landscape and imagination. In paintings such as Le radici delle nuvole (2024) and Nocturne #2 (2026), cavernous forms, flowing water, and fragmented terrain dissolve into one another, producing environments that feel at once geological and hallucinatory.
Mattia Sinigaglia’s practice unfolds through layering and material time, where painting and structure develop in a slow dialogue across surfaces and objects. Works such as Datura (2026) and Veglie e Riposi (2026) combine oil painting with carved wood and ceramic elements, allowing images to emerge gradually from their material supports and hover between figuration and abstraction.
Ezio Gribaudo’s works on paper evoke forms shaped through memory and mediated experience rather than direct observation. In drawings including Kings Canyon, Australia and Ayers Rock (1984), simplified shapes and restrained color suggest landscapes recalled rather than seen, filtered through distance and time.
Across different languages, each artist engages with a different condition of distance from the immediate. What emerges is a space in which form is never given, but continually constructed. Faloretti and Sinigaglia both trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, while Gribaudo belongs to an earlier generation. The exhibition holds this distance not as a gap to bridge, but as part of its structure.
Alice Faloretti (b. 1992, Brescia, Italy) is an Italian painter who lives and works in Brescia. She received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2018, following a BFA from the Santa Giulia Academy in Brescia in 2015. Faloretti’s practice has been shaped through a series of exhibitions across Italy, including Passages at Luce Gallery, Turin (2024), Italian Painting Today at the Triennale di Milano (2023–24), and Il continente buio at Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2023). Earlier presentations include Soglie at Mucho Mas, Turin (2022), Deep Blue, a double solo exhibition at Fondamenta Gallery, Rome (2020), and Suspension of Disbelief at Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea (2019). She has participated in residencies at Palazzo Monti (Brescia), The Fores Project (London), and Living Room (Cuneo), and her work has been recognized through several awards, including the Rotary Asolo Prize (2021), as well as shortlistings for the Premio Cairo (2022) and the Lissone Prize (2023).
Ezio Gribaudo (b. 1929–2022) exhibited internationally over several decades. His first solo show took place in 1953 in Turin, followed by an important exhibition at Galleria La Bussola in 1959. In the 1960s he participated in major exhibitions such as the Salon de Mai in Paris (1965), the Venice Biennale (1966), where he received the Official Prize, and the São Paulo Bienal (1967). He also took part in the Salón de Mayo in Havana, contributing to the collective work Cuba Colectiva. Later exhibitions included presentations at the Kunstverein in Göttingen (1971), Marlborough Gallery in London (1974), and Michaud Gallery in Florence alongside David Hockney. A retrospective of his work was held in Turin in 1986, and in 2003 he was awarded the City of Turin’s Gold Medal. He later served as President of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where he was named Honorary Academician.
Mattia Sinigaglia (b. 1989) has exhibited widely in Italy and internationally, with recent highlights including Enchanted Vision at Kwai Fung Hin Gallery, Hong Kong (2026), and the solo exhibition L’animale che dunque sono at AplusA Gallery, Venice (2025). His work has been included in major group exhibitions such as Venice Time Case, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, presented across institutions in Italy and Paris, and HAND/MADE at Galerie Italienne, Paris. He has participated in leading fairs including PAD Paris and Roma Arte in Nuvola, and has exhibited in cities including Rome, Milan, Modena, and New York. Sinigaglia has been recognized as a finalist for the Premio VAF (2026), Premio Cairo (2025), and Francesco Fabbri Prize (2021), and has completed residencies such as ViaFarini in Milan.