The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca presents the exhibition Daniele Puppi. Eh, lampu! curated by Marco Tirelli, former president of the Academy.

From the very beginning, Daniele Puppi (Pordenone, 1970) has challenged the idea of Euclidean space, conceiving his work as a true work in regress. The works are actually born after a gestation period spent within the exhibition spaces, during which the artist experiments with the environment and establishes an almost carnal relationship with it, probing its limits and potential.

Preferring video installation, Puppi has developed a radically new approach to the medium, subverting its conventional use and bringing sound and visual-architectural reconfiguration to the forefront, transforming them into elements of continuous metamorphosis. The technologies employed — video projectors, LED screens, synchronizers, amplifiers, subwoofers, speakers, microphones — are tools functional to activating the viewer's perceptual faculties, involving them firsthand as an integral part of the work. The viewer/visitor is thus called to enter a new and unsettling sensory-spatial dimension.

Also on the occasion of this solo exhibition at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Puppi catapults us in medias res: with a start, a flash, a dazzle. The title of the exhibition, Eh, lampu!, indeed recalls a typical expression in Sardinian Logudorese that conveys wonder or amazement in the face of a sudden and unexpected "brightness" — the flash. Its appearance, rapid and vivid, throws the observer off balance: disorients, reorients, projects them into another perceptual reality.

An aggregation of energy — a lightning bolt, precisely — emerges from the four works exhibited, which, like an electric discharge, cross and transform the architectural spaces of Palazzo Carpegna, radically altering their perception.