For the Antico Ospedale dei Battuti, the Milanese artist Silvio Wolf has imagined a large environmental installation specifically designed for the place.

Wolf has in fact conceived a path that involves the building in its entirety, expanding across the three floors of the exhibition path and the tower, rethinking the spaces in such a way as to make them themselves, from containers, become true three-dimensional and traversable works of art.

Working on the relationship between light and space, which has always characterized his research, the artist has questioned the relationship between the presence and absence of images between fragments of ancient frescoes and bare brick walls or period plaster, arriving at developing a path of insertion of his works within the architecture, alternating two- and three-dimensional works specifically installed: the appearance and disappearance of images, physical and virtual, with the dialectical relationship between what is seen and what is imagined, are in fact the cornerstones of this path.

But above all, by merging ancient and contemporary, and allowing the latter to rethink and reinvent places characterized by traces of past civilizations, Wolf wanted to offer the public not an exhibition of works hanging on the wall, but an immersive and experiential journey that emphasizes the meditative aspect of the place.

Silvio Wolf lives and works in Milan and New York. He studied Philosophy and Psychology in Italy and Photography and Visual Arts in London.

He uses the photographic medium to express a subjective and strongly metaphorical vision of reality. Through the use of photography, video, light and sound he creates multi-media projects and sound installations that involve architectural and social space and the specificity of places. In his site-specific projects, as in all his photographic work, the problems of absence, elsewhere and threshold are always central.

He has worked in Belgium, Canada, Korea, France, Germany, England, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.
He is a professor of Photography at the School of Visual Arts of the European Institute of Design in Milan and Visiting Professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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