For the next meeting of the Art Club cycle, Villa Medici invites the Turin painter Guglielmo Castelli. Inspired by literature, theater and art history, Guglielmo Castelli develops a universe in which he mixes human and animal figures, fragments of landscape, natural elements and everyday scenes. With a figurative style in which magmatic and monochromatic areas coexist with fluid subjects, he sets up stories in perpetual movement, almost cinematic.

The setting that welcomes these stories is that of the gardens of Villa Medici: five works by Castelli are presented in the Balthus Atelier, in the Studiolo of Ferdinando de' Medici and in the plaster cast gallery. These are four oils on canvas: the diptych I Believe in The Nights (2021); Buon Vento (2023); Le Jardin des Refusés and The mutiny's space (2022), as well as a tapestry made from recycled plastic and natural threads, Dorofoco. Bonotto for A collection (2020). This set of works offers visitors a chromatic journey where each work seems to contain an enigma to be solved.

Since 2016, the Art Club cycle has presented the work of international contemporary artists in the form of visual and plastic interventions in the historic spaces of Villa Medici: the loggias, the gardens and the plaster cast gallery. Integrated with the guided tour routes of Villa Medici, these interventions renew and enrich the experience of a place that is both historical and contemporary, conducive to unexpected artistic dialogues. Recently invited artists include Caroline Mesquita, Rosa Barba, Jean-Marie Appriou, Giuseppe Penone, Katinka Bock, Namsal Siedlecki, Achraf Touloub...