2019/
Immersion/ Desire Path
Solo show
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
23/9/19—16/2/20
Solothurn
Solothurn
2020
The exhibition Desire Path at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn presents a comprehensive overview of the recent work of Giacomo Santiago Rogado (b. 1979, Lucerne). Known for his innovative approach to painting and his refined sense of light and space, Rogado transforms the museum into an immersive environment where each room unfolds as a distinct spatial and perceptual experience.
In the fourth room, Giacomo Santiago Rogado transforms the space into a large-scale light installation, highlighting the central role of light in his artistic practice. Here, painting expands into a realm of pure luminosity and projection. Rogado uses slices of agate stones, inserting them like slides into projectors. The colorful stones, when illuminated, cast shimmering light images across the walls — compositions that strikingly echo the visual language of his paintings.
In the fourth room, Giacomo Santiago Rogado transforms the space into a large-scale light installation, highlighting the central role of light in his artistic practice. Here, painting expands into a realm of pure luminosity and projection. Rogado uses slices of agate stones, inserting them like slides into projectors. The colorful stones, when illuminated, cast shimmering light images across the walls — compositions that strikingly echo the visual language of his paintings.
Although Rogado carefully selects each stone, its cut, and the sequence of projections, he ultimately allows nature itself to “paint.” The translucent minerals reveal organic structures and chromatic depths that recall Rogado’s meditative exploration of color, form, and perception. The resulting wall-filling panorama envelops viewers in a contemplative environment where the boundaries between natural formation and artistic creation dissolve.
This room embodies Rogado’s ongoing dialogue between control and chance, perception and illusion. The agate projections extend his painterly logic into the immaterial realm of light, turning the exhibition space into an immersive field of color, reflection, and quiet transformation.
This room embodies Rogado’s ongoing dialogue between control and chance, perception and illusion. The agate projections extend his painterly logic into the immaterial realm of light, turning the exhibition space into an immersive field of color, reflection, and quiet transformation.