What is a contemporary cluster? Defining this space through simple categorisation wouldn’t be correct; it’s more appropriate to consider it as the visual embodiment of a revolutionary artistic drive. Founded in 2016 by Giacomo Guidi, this project begins with the restoration of Palazzo Bravaccio, deep cultural value for the capital, symbolising a future artistic blossoming from a historic ground. 

It’s not merely an exhibition gallery but rather a true synergy of elements and factors, a fluid interaction among arts, space, creation, and contemporaneity. It’s structured into different “sectors”: a long corridor, a floor dedicated to exhibitions of younger artists, a café area, and a high-content bookshop.The note of multiplicity and metamorphosis of expression doesn’t just stop at the diversification of these spaces but continues with the addition of a residency service for artists. This bridge connected to tradition and a taste of the past serves as an incentive for creative support. In the apartment arranged on the 6th floor and designed by architect Giorgia Cerulli, artists have the opportunity to stay for a certain period to focus on their artistic production. Every corner and centimetre of this space bends and promotes collectivity and collaboration among elements of different origins for purely artistic and creative purposes: a continuous synergy and a pulsating vital sap.
At the core of the project is Giacomo Guidi, founder and artistic director of the gallery. A multifaceted figure, with a lively life full of exchanges and interactions with some of the greatest names in this field, he’s himself an example of the combination of different elements. Giacomo puts his thoughts into action; every word is the embodiment of a spirit that for more than 20 years has known how to break free from imposed frameworks, a revolutionary spirit fighting for artistic fervour.

The choice of a specific contemporaneity that resides within his space doesn’t follow a scheme but is dictated by a framework of elements such as his background, cultural formation, attitude, and melancholic vision. His artists, as he himself cites, are <<knights of time>>,  protectors of a past awareness and skilled artisans able to reshape tradition for the formation of a new future. <<To stay in your own time, with time, you must be a healthy bearer of tradition>>. This is what lies behind the choice of artistic content for the gallery; the talents he promotes are figures endowed with defined intellectual capacity: ethics, morals, literature, respect for masters are indispensable qualities. The rock and powerful essence of the exhibitions derive from the fact that the mood of the artists in question is serene; they have pure awareness and knowledge of the past, <<feeling cradled by history>> and departing from it to elaborate new visions.

What makes a gallery fertile ground is the significant connection with related elements. Artist and gallerist must be connected by a circular and binomial relationship. The gallery is a tool, a means through which the creative can express themselves, discovering new territories. Progress is linked to the ability to step out of one’s comfort zone. <<The quality of work comes from putting oneself in crisis>>. From the beginning, Giacomo absorbed from great intellectuals and made his own the continuous questioning, not settling for what we see, the need to investigate: the depth of thought, pathos, temporality, and the acceptance of our precariousness. <<We have built a society that unfortunately often rewards mediocrity and marginalises outsiders, which lacks constructive criticism and love for past knowledge>>. Strongly discussing this, Giacomo expresses the need for young voices, talents capable of producing and making art with purity, capable of seeing things with a spherical circularity, of creating an artistic community, participating in it, and remaining faithful to their instinct.