From May 30th to September 16th, 2025, the Royal Museums of Turin pay tribute to Giuseppe Maraniello (Naples, 1945), one of the protagonists of Italian art in recent decades, with an exhibition set up in the Royal Gardens and on the first floor of the Sabauda Gallery.

The exhibition, promoted by the Royal Museums of Turin, created with Nicola Loi - Studio Copernico and curated by Francesco Tedeschi, presents a series of 14 sculptural and environmental works that interact with the historical and monumental spaces.

Giuseppe Maraniello's works, progressively defined through the combination of canvases, recycled materials, and sculptural elements in bronze and iron, develop according to different solutions, both on the wall and in architectural and landscape spaces, in a synthesis between the memory of themes and images and the elaboration of materials.

In Maraniello's sculptures, including large-scale ones, set up in the Royal Gardens, the figures of his fantastic world take shape in situations of strong visual impact. Here demons meet, like the winged devil reminiscent of the images of the Monumental Cemetery of Pisa, centaurs from Greek mythology fighting in a duel, in a sort of allegory of man fighting against himself, figures of tightrope walkers and hermaphrodites, as well as alembics, flasks, and jugs reminiscent of certain forms scattered in many of Hieronymus Bosch's paintings. Of particular relevance is the Nest, a place that welcomes the web of dreams and possible fantasies, from the delicate structure of "branches" derived from casting spills that, like other recycled materials, become part of his compositions.

“Here is what happens to those who pause in front of these works – writes Sandro Parmiggiani in the catalog –, the invitation to immerse oneself, at least in part, in a sort of mystery, on the trail of the unknown associations that, in the artist's imagination, have generated them, trying to unveil some of the profound meanings that are enclosed within them and that have not yet come to light”.

Giuseppe Maraniello's sculptures stage the dynamics of balances, clashes, imprints of a relationship with the imaginary that becomes memory, figure of myth, symbol of hidden forces reflecting the vitality of the contrasts that characterize the human soul.