On Saturday, February 21, 2026, starting at 11:00 am, the inauguration of the new exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto is scheduled. The cycle, which will last until the beginning of June 2026, covering the spring period, includes four new exhibition projects: Minor Life. St. Francis and the sanctity of contemporary art, a collective exhibition curated by Gianni and Giuseppe Garrera; Agraria, a solo exhibition by Franco Troiani curated by Saverio Verini; Sculpture speaks louder than words, a solo exhibition by Barry Flanagan curated by Jo Melvin; Lyrical Experimental. Author's Posters, an exhibition that includes a selection of the original sketches of the posters from the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto "A.Belli" curated by Raffaella Clerici and Saverio Verini.

With this series of events, Palazzo Collicola offers the public a path that intertwines historical memory and contemporary sensibility, strengthening the dialogue between art and territory.

On the Noble Floor, Agraria will be set up, a solo exhibition by Franco Troiani curated by Saverio Verini, a project that coincides with the artist's eightieth birthday and the fortieth anniversary of STUDIO A’87 founded by him, a reality that has played a fundamental role in the artistic scene of Spoleto and Umbria. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between the essential materiality of the works - mainly made of wood and found elements - and the grandeur of the historical furnishings, activating a dialectical relationship between the works and the environments of the Noble Floor.

The title, Agraria, refers to a vision that deeply permeates Troiani's practice, evoking a industriousness linked to the land, its cycles, and an idea of "making art" based on simplicity, method, and continuity. The reference to the agricultural dimension does not assume an iconographic value, but is configured as an operative principle and ethical horizon: an attitude close to a contemporary ruralism, distant from consumption and spectacularization, based on the sharing of processes and on a constructive critical thinking. The Umbrian land emerges as a structural matrix of the work, traceable in the realization processes and in the materials of the works.

Although configured as a project of an anthological nature, the exhibition does not follow a chronological criterion nor aims to systematize the vast production of the artist. The goal is rather to present a targeted selection of works - a sort of best of - ranging from the late seventies to the present, including also an unpublished work created specifically for the occasion.