Patrizia Mussa, THEATRICALITY. Second Act
THE GRAND TOUR OF WONDER STOPS IN BORMIO
At the Meublé Sertorelli Reit the Second Act of Theatricality. Architectures for the wonder of Patrizia Mussa.
After a first appearance in Bormio on the occasion of the XXV Olympic Winter Games Milan-Cortina 2026, Teatralità. Architecture for the Wonder of Patrizia Mussa is renewed with a Second Act and returns to the Meublé Sertorelli Reit.
For several years, Patrizia Mussa has been taking a solo Grand Tour across Italy, exploring some of the most extraordinary theaters and the architecture of princely palaces: places where art, architecture, and music have helped build a fundamental part of Italy’s cultural heritage over the centuries. A heritage that the artist not only documents, but interprets through a contemporary vision.
In addition to photography, Mussa also underwent a patient manual coloring procedure with pastels and watercolors, performed directly on the print. The artist’s gesture attenuates the documentary precision of the image and introduces a dimension of memory, atmosphere, and vision: light becomes matter, color atmosphere, architecture transforms.
Theatricality. Architecture for Wonder has been presented at major Italian and international venues, including the Royal Palace in Milan and the Hôtel de Galliffet, home to the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.
The new stop is in Bormio, the historic “Magnifica Terra”, where nature, culture and beauty have coexisted for centuries. The project is being welcomed by the Hotel Meublé Sertorelli Reit, a charming little hotel in the historic center that, since its opening, has recognized how the intersection of art and hospitality could enrich the hospitality experience, choosing to dedicate its spaces to a program of photography exhibitions and contemporary art projects conceived and curated by Paola Sosio Contemporary Art Milan.
PATRIZIA MUSSA
Patrizia Mussa lives and works between Turin and Paris. Graduated in Philosophy, she specialized in Cultural Anthropology at the Sorbonne. Photography of architecture, interiors and landscape are at the heart of his research. Among his main projects Theatricality. Architectures for Wonder, Warless Theatres and Le Temps du Soleil – Architecture de l’Utopie. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad; his works are present in important collections in Italy, Europe, the United States, and the Far East.
Paola Sosio + Contemporary Art was born in 2009 as an independent project dedicated mainly to art photography in a limited edition. A nomadic gallery, “liquid”, to put it with Zygmunt Bauman, who has chosen a multichannel approach to develop a lively and unusual program of synergies with alternative galleries and spaces, based in Milan and Bormio and a constant presence in the principalities main contemporary art fairs.
