26 february 2026 – 3 april 2026

Opening: martedì 26 february 2026 h. 18.00

Dario Maglionico

Dis-sequenze liminali

curated by Arianna Baldoni

The gallery of Antonio Colombo, after 30 years of activity, has decided to change its visual identity with a new logo, a new name and a new website. The first exhibition at Colombo’s Gallery opens on 26 February 2026, when the gallery is pleased to present Dis-sequenze liminali, a solo show by Dario Maglionico curated by Arianna Baldoni. The exhibition, the seventh in the cycle of collaborations with Colombo’s Gallery, takes its cue from the work chosen as one of the finalists in the 24th Premio Cairo, titled Reificazione #95 (Reification #95), and brings together a series of recent works developed precisely in relation to this painting.
To cross over the linear nature of time means gaining access to a dimension related to the instant, where past, present and future coexist in a plot of synchronicity, memories and mental projections.
The pictorial research of Dario Maglionico exists precisely in this suspended space. For years the artist has been engaged in the exploration of multiple realities, psychic flows and inner landscapes.
His works stem from the elaboration of memories and mental visualizations, initially reformulated through digital models of settings, and then transposed onto canvas with painstaking technique that strives for an honest interaction with reality. The scenes are mostly domestic interiors inhabited by solitary, sometimes evanescent figures, glimpsed in different actions that happen simultaneously within a non-linear time, where – to use the words of T.S. Eliot in Burnt Norton – “time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future.”
Maglionico’s rooms become devices of space-time overlay, places in which the viewpoints multiply themselves and perception becomes unstable. The overturned perspectives, the incongruous sequences and visual slippages generate dreamy environments that while complying with a rigorous project, allude to a reality that eludes the ordinary cognitive system.
The new cycle of works by Maglionico turns around a single room, where the perspective shifts and the viewpoint reverses in a continuous spatial loop. Female figures, everyday objects, symbolic presences, surreal spaces, thresholds, filters and layers. These elements return in the artist’s work, almost as if they were suggestions of primordial entities or embryos of future universes.
The darkness wraps the works, interrupted by glimmers and sparks which the painted texture accentuates in the contrast between profiles in the foreground and the density of the background. In reference to the use of light, Ivan Quaroni has observed that Maglionico’s painting becomes “more intelligible and seductive, without losing that sense of dreamy suspension that from the outset has been one of the earmarks of his style.”

DARIO MAGLIONICO was born in Naples in 1986. He currently lives and works in Milan. He currently lives and works in Milan. With a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Milan Polytechnic, he concentrates exclusively on painting. Maglionico was a finalist in the Premio Fondazione VAF at the MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, where he has shown his works. In 2020 he opened Doppelgänger, his first solo show at the Vin Gallery of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2018 in Milan, he presented the solo exhibition Everyday is like Sunday, curated by Ivan Quaroni, at Colombo’s Gallery, and he took part in the group show If The Walls Could Talk in London, at the Alice Black Gallery. In 2016 he collaborated with the writer Domenico Starnone, making the illustrations for the book Scherzetto published by Einaudi. In 2023 the monograph Dario Maglionico. Dove abita il tempo sospeso, edited by Nicoletta Colombo, was published by VAF-Stiftung, presented during the course of the solo exhibition FLOATING SPACE at Colombo’s Gallery. In 2025 he was selected as one of the finalists in the 24th Premio Cairo, the most prestigious Italian award to support young artists under 40, organized by the monthly magazine ARTE of Cairo Editore.