Due per due "Imaginaryscapes". Taisi Korotkova e Aldo Mondino
from 6 March 2026 to 19 April 2026
Milano
As part of the DUE PER DUE exhibition series, the C+N CANEPANERI Gallery is pleased to present Imaginaryscapes. The exhibition brings together the works of Aldo Mondino (Turin, Italy, 1938–
2005) and Taisia Korotkova (Moscow, USSR, 1980; lives and works in Milan, Italy), through a reflection on landscape understood as an evolving imaginative construct, where reality and vision intertwine to generate possible worlds. Curated by Alessandra Franetovich, with a critical essay by Laura Cherubini, the exhibition brings together two practices that diverge in their historical and cultural contexts but converge in a shared territory: the development of visions suspended between personal experience and symbolic projection, whilst expressing distinct temporal conditions.
Within the broad spectrum of references present in the exhibition, Mondino’s vision unfolds through experimentation with artistic languages and representations of place, permeated by the idea of travel—both real and mental—shaped by a period marked by his years in Paris and an interest in Orientalism.
His work explores the concept of place as a cultural construct traversed by desire,
memory and symbolic stratification.
On the other hand, Korotkova articulates a decidedly contemporary and critical investigation into the collective tensions shaping our global present, dominated by the relationship between technology and humanity, as well as by anthropocentric and neocolonial perspectives. Her post-apocalyptic dynamics suggest an attempt to open up and resolve these tensions by shifting the focus towards the landscape as a relational and dynamic field, a space for fluid, interspecies habitation.
The exhibition thus raises a central question: how do we imagine today the places of our lived experience and those that do not exist, and what cultural and political implications does this entail?
The neologism Imaginaryscapes seeks to expand the concept of ‘imaginative geography’ theorised
by Edward Said towards a notion of landscape-as-imagination, where the suffix “-scapes” evokes the complexity of contemporary spaces as open fields traversed by shifting boundaries. In the dialogue between Korotkova and Mondino, a tension emerges that renders the transformation of time visible: from individual travel to the collective dimension, from exotic fascination to a critical re-examination of the present.
Imaginaryscapes thus becomes a space for open inquiry into the power of the imagination to construct worlds and into the possibility—never fully resolved—of inhabiting the images we produce.
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