Curated by Sébastien Delot.
Exhibition promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale and the Special Company Palaexpo, produced and organized by the Special Company Palaexpo.

Pietro Ruffo's Last Wonderful Minute is the largest exhibition ever dedicated by a public institution to the artist.

Pietro Ruffo reflects on the impact of man on Earth, exploring the legitimacy of the term Anthropocene and condensing in the exhibited works the history of our planet and knowledge.

The exhibition will take place in the large hall of the noble floor of Palazzo Esposizioni and in the three adjacent rooms. In the largest hall, Le Monde Avant la Création de l’Homme, a 21-meter-long work, will be included in the immersive installation The Last Wonderful Minute, which will recreate the atmosphere of a primeval forest. Inside, visitors will be able to walk among the testimonies of an ancient history offered by the circular works entitled De Hortus.

The exhibition path will continue with the discovery of the first human traces reproduced through five large paintings from the Antropocene Prehistory series.

Subsequently, visitors will become aware of time, immersing themselves in the video installation created in collaboration with Noruwei The Planetary Garden, where prehistory, present, and future are connected in a single stratified horizon.

The exhibition will end with a reflection on Rome, seen and dissected in its various historical and geological phases: a visual palimpsest created specifically for Palazzo Esposizioni, which places millennia of evolution under a single gaze.