by DANILO BUCCHI
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

After its debut at MAXXI Rome in 2024, Galleria Gaburro brings Oltretutto to Milan — the project by Danilo Bucchi, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, in which the artist unveils his new creation: a work that stands as a threshold, a passage, a revelation.

The project was previewed at the Triennale di Milano, in the presence of prominent figures from the art and cultural world, during an encounter introduced by Achille Bonito Oliva, who described Oltretutto as “a new grammar of seeing, where gesture and light exchange places, and the image becomes relationship.” The following day, the exhibition opened at Galleria Gaburro, giving visual form to that dialogue between sign and gaze which lies at the core of the project.

Danilo Bucchi, known for his radical visual research and unmistakable stylistic signature, has long explored the language of the sign and its unconscious origins. On this occasion, however, the artist reveals himself in an unprecedented light: through the photographic medium, he has conceived a collector’s volume, published by Drago and produced with the support of Galleria Gaburro, gathering and narrating a complex body of work developed over more than a decade.

“Oltretutto is a movement of transcendence — a poetic and visual leap that breaks boundaries and suggests new directions of meaning,” explains Danilo Bucchi.

Oltretutto is an immersive experience that investigates the concepts of sign and perception, leading the viewer into a hybrid territory between photography and symbolic language. It is a project in which Bucchi explores new forms of expression, arriving at a synthesis where photographic portraits, taken by the artist, are juxtaposed with the drawings made by the portrayed subjects themselves.

Oltretutto becomes an intimate anthology of portraits — of ordinary people, writers, filmmakers, actors, designers, musicians, curators, and museum directors — encountered along the streets of Rome, Milan, Berlin, Paris, New York, and Tokyo. These portraits emerge as an inner mapping, an emotional code, a primordial and ancestral writing. A book of faces through which the artist invites the viewer to look *beyond the image, beyond the visible — beyond everything.

Among those featured are Alessandro Borghi, Silvia Calderoni, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Elio Germano, Emma Marrone, Alessandro Michele, Ferzan Ozpetek, Diane Pernet, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Claudio Santamaria, Jérôme Sans, Virginia Raffaele, Emanuele Trevi, Jasmine Trinca, and many others.