September 25-November 8, 2025
Opening: Thursday, September 25, 6 p.m.
Jacopo Ginanneschi
L’ultimo segreto
curated by Ivan Quaroni
Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present L’ultimo segreto, the first solo show of Jacopo Ginanneschi in the milanese gallery, curated by Ivan Quaroni. The show exhibits a selection of recent artworks, mostly previously unseen, outlining a solid and visionary pictorial path, balancing the lyricism of landscape with the sacred energy of the human figure.
The title, taken from Eugenio Montale’s poem I limoni, evokes the possibility of a revelation – a hidden truth that emerges only through silence and contemplation. This is precisely what occurs in Ginanneschi’s paintings, where the observation of reality intertwines with inner projections, and the landscape becomes a threshold between the visible and the invisible.
Painting on panel or canvas using the glazing technique, Ginanneschi manages to restore a contemplative and cognitive value to figurative painting. His pictorial works – from Elia nel deserto (2023) to La predica di San Giovanni Battista (2025) and I monti scuri (2023) – are the result of meticulous observation and synthesys. Ginanneschi creates a series of preliminary sketches, made en plain air, from which he then selects the subjects of the actual paintings.The resulting works do not mimic reality, but translates it in visions imbued with a suspended atmosphere.
The artist moves between medieval and Renaissance influences, and twentieth-century suggestions, drawing inspiration from both the Tuscan Primitives of the 14th and 15th centuries, and from Metaphysical and Magical Realist painters. In his landscapes, each natural detail is charged with symbolic meaning, and human figures often appear as archaic presences, immersed in a sacred yet unsettling dimension that recalls the sanctity of ancient painting.
His urban visions and domestic interiors reveal the artist’s interest in contructing estranging atmospheres, conveyed through the tension generated by the contrast between the optical precision and the deliberate use of incongruous multiple perspectives.
Ginanneschi’s painting invites the viewer to slow perception, to exercise observation of form and the silence of images. The title L’ultimo segreto is, in a sense, a key to the artist’s pictorial universe—a verse that encapsulates the essence of a research path which, through the representation of landscape and figure, seeks to capture the moment in which things reveal their deepest meaning and the invisible vibration that runs through them.
JACOPO GINANNESCHI was born in 1987 in Castel del Piano (Grosseto). He currently lives and works in Milan. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence from 2006 to 2011, where he developed a technique and a style that mix classical elements with modern interpretations. He worked as an assistant to painter Nicola de Maria at Centro Pecci in Prato.
Ginanneschi took part in numerous group and solo shows in Italy and abroad. Among his most significant shows, we remember East Meet West at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (2019), Per Leonardo: l’arte è libera at Accademia delle Arti e del Disegno of Florence (2019), and Artisti fra le pagine di Erba d’Arno at Fucecchio (2016). Throughout his career, he also painted murals for major exhibitions, collaborating with prominent artists such as Chiara Fumai, Shabalala Self, and Erik Bulatov at the Museo di Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato. These projects further solidified his reputation as a versatile and innovative artist. Besides his exhibitions, Ginanneschi has been named Ordinary Member of the Accademia delle Arti e del Disegno in Florence in 2019, after being named Corresponding Member in 2017 – an acknowledgment of his significant contribution to the art world. His artworks are characterized by a profound exploration of nature and the human figure, often mixing reality and fiction to create landscapes and evocative scenes. He has published several catalogs, amongst which Visioni di Natura, curated by Antonio Natali and Adriano Bimbi in 2023, which complies and documents his most important works.
