Alla finestra

La Rocca Foundation in Pescara, chaired by Ottorino La Rocca, is hosting Alla finestra, a solo exhibition by Ugo La Pietra curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, until 24 October 2026.
Featuring approximately 70 works — including two-dimensional pieces such as acrylics on canvas, photomontages, and watercolors on paper, as well as three-dimensional works like ceramics and tapestries — and after a preamble, the exhibition is divided into six sections. It opens with Living by the Window, where the tension between interior and exterior is reversed into an intimate and paradoxical dimension: the interior tends to close in on itself and vision becomes mental, entrusted to the imagination rather than the actual view. It continues with Behind the Window, where the threshold takes on the dual nature of both a boundary and a possibility: what separates the inside from the outside also becomes what allows one to imagine a gap, a passage. Architecture/Nature, where the dialogue between architecture and the environment reveals one of the fundamental tensions in the artist’s work, connecting design, space, and life. In the sections The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Landscape, the scope expands into a broader dimension — one that encompasses nature, memory, and imagination — where the landscape emerges as an inner construction as well as a visual one. The exhibition concludes with Outside the Window: in the city, the gaze shifts to the urban space — the central focus of La Pietra’s research — where the relationship between the individual and the environment becomes an opportunity for critical reflection on contemporary living.