Treti Galaxie is proud to present Tiziano e Giorgione, a double solo show on the friendship and death of Michele Gabriele and Alessandro Di Pietro, as curated by Matteo Mottin.

Gabriele and Di Pietro worked separately, without debating their decisions if not through the intermediation of the curator, in order for both to come up with an emblematic work, one that might express the main themes and characteristics of their current research. A synthesis of their poetics that would reflect and capture both the formal and conceptual approach of this particular period of their lives and friendship.

Drawing inspiration from the peculiar link between the 16th-century Venetian masters Giorgione and Titian, who completed his friend’s canvases after his death, the artists made a blood pact: when one of the two dies, the other will have the task of taking care of, restoring and completing the works of his friend.

Tiziano e Giorgione is thus a sentimental project, an exhibition on trust and ties, but also one that questions the imposed – however necessary – carefreeness with which we look upon the duration of our lives and the relationships that we establish with others.

Photography by Marco Cappelletti