Arte Borgo Gallery and ArtCan London present their first collaborative exhibition,

“Transparent as a Dragonfly’, which will first take place in Arte Borgo Gallery in October

2023 and then travel to London in 2024.

The title for the exhibition is taken from a passage in Calvino's ‘Invisible Cities’:

"Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in

what order in rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for

someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become

the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is

transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly."

In celebration of 100 years since Italian author Italo Calvino’s birth which takes place on the

15th of October 2023, the exhibition ‘Transparent as a Dragonfly’ will be based on artists’

responses to his book, ‘Invisible Cities’, (1972). Artists will be able to choose a sentence, a

passage or a chapter from the book and present a work, not necessarily unpublished, which

explores a concept related to the text itself without limits given by the single expressive

language.