The Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce hosts the "Visibilia" exhibition from 22 October 2023 to 8 January 2024. The contemporary art museum of Villa Croce, with the important exhibition "Visibilia" whose curator is Isabella Puliafito, enters a new era, characterized by a renewal of the image and communication and an increasingly high-quality offer. The focus of the museum will be brought back to the truly contemporary. The rich permanent collection will be thoroughly studied and relaunched. Special attention will be paid to young national and international artists.

"Visibilia" is not a themed exhibition, but a collection of works chosen with particular care together with each individual artist to become a story. The works cover a vast range of visual explorations from digital and non-digital photography, to acrylic painting, from neon video, from projections to installations with different materials. All together they are part, for a short period, of the space that welcomes them in a sort of open dialogue with the place itself, with the other works and with those who stop to scrutinize their internal meaning.

Visibilia represents a particular tendency towards immateriality and impermanence, towards a look towards reality in all its natural and emotional aspects expressed with light, sometimes invisible forms, with light, with light colours, with dust, with ash, with the starry nights, with the evanescences, with the poetic songs. Visibilia is a different story every time depending on the place that hosts it and the works that compose it, sometimes site specific, created specifically, other times placed so that they create a symbiotic relationship with the space of which they become part even if for a period limited.

Villa Croce, which hosts Visibilia, is delicate, elegant, among thick vegetation and overlooking the sea, sweet in its interior with the grotesques that represent nature with sweetness and refined elegance, and the works follow this atmosphere: they are light and they pose different themes, including starry nocturnes, lucid paths of subjective reflections and profound considerations on the present. There is a lot of nature in Visibilia Genova, a nature whose difficulties at times we want to show, with sweetness but also a veil of sadness. It is a story that can appeal to consciences, without shouting, but by presenting a problem that is on the conscience of all of us. Art has always had the arduous and irreplaceable task of capturing the essence of reality and restoring it so that it can enter hearts. Its different forms, its unusual languages open up questions and perplexities to which answers are sometimes more complicated than the works themselves.

The catalog is introduced by the words that Benedict XVI addressed to the artists of various disciplines invited to a meeting in the Sistine Chapel on 21 November 2009: "Your job is to make the invisible understandable".