10 & zero uno in Venice presents Canto alla durata, a solo exhibition by Giuliana Storino, winner of the 2024 We Art Open Worldwide by No Title Gallery & CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo.
The exhibition unfolds as a three-act journey and, in this Venetian chapter, explores the theme of duration: resistance, memory, and transformation.
The title echoes the poem Canto alla durata by Peter Handke and becomes a key to interpreting a series of new works that intertwine biography with reflections on the act of making art and the dimensions of existence.
The project is the result of over two years of work and research, during which the artist wove her personal memory – as the daughter of a butcher – with the memory of the space that now hosts the exhibition: the former butcher shop now home to the 10 & zero uno gallery.
At the heart of the exhibition are emblematic works such as Cicàdidi, a sculptural installation accompanied by a sound piece that diffuses the song of cicadas inside a refrigerated cell, and a new version of Cavalletto a dondolo, a rocking sculpture in mirrored steel that symbolically merges the professions of artist and butcher.
Alongside these works, double-sided drawings (carte bifronti) transform the sign into a threshold: surfaces that open and close, where the outlines of the easel and Cicàdidi emerge in both positive and negative, offering an ambivalent perceptual experience of presence and absence.
Also on view is Sogni d’acciaio (2025), in which a childhood memory – the delicate silver sheet once used to wrap meat – becomes an engraved plate, transformed into a universal symbol of the poetic force of art.
Through a language that traverses sculpture, installation, sound, and paper, Giuliana Storino explores time as a condition of both fragility and resistance.
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Giuliana Storino, Cavalletto a dondolo, 2025, hand engraving on slate, 18 x 26 cm, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Giuliana Storino, Cavalletto a dondolo (3 dondoli su carta), 2025, relief printing on handmade paper, 39 x 49 cm, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Giuliana Storino, Cicàdidi, 2025, relief printing on handmade paper, 55 x 55 cm, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Giuliana Storino, Cicàdidi, la cadenza della vita, 2025, Disegno, taglio e saldatura su acciaio a laser, 20 x 46 cm, Ph. Filippo Molena 
Exhibition View, Canto alla Durata, 2025, 10 & zero uno, Ph. Filippo Molena
🖌️ Giuliana Storino (1986, Manduria)
lives in Milan and works everywhere. She teaches Artistic Anatomy and Extra-media Techniques at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, starting from an exploration of the natural world and expanding into existential themes, examining the relationships between body and space, nature and technology. She addresses themes of balance, resistance, memory, and transformation. Her practice intertwines personal biography with reflections on art-making and the dimensions of existence, using a language that includes drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, writing, and installation. Giuliana Storino explores time as a condition of existence, contextualizing human experience within geological time, cosmic change, and transformation.
In her deep and layered research, she investigates the relationships between fragility and temporality, visibility and invisibility, drawing on a multiplicity of languages and collaborations with institutions and companies. In 2025, her work was selected and awarded to represent Italy at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, receiving two prestigious prizes from both the jury and the public. Storino has exhibited internationally. Her works are held in the collections of numerous institutions and public and private foundations in Italy and abroad, including: Qingdao Sculpture Art Museum in China; Küçükçekmece Municipal Gallery in Istanbul; National Academy of Painting and Engraving in Yinchuan, China; Merate Astronomical Observatory – INAF; and Fondazione OELLE Mediterraneo Antico ETS. She has exhibited in both institutional and independent spaces in Italy and abroad, participating in artist residencies and experimental projects. Recent accolades include: Winner of the CREA Cantieri Prize (2024) for Venezia–Land Art. She was presented at the Quadriennale di Roma during Panorama Studio Visit (2023), curated by Lorenzo Madaro.
Exhibition Press
Settembre/Ottobre 2025, Segno n. 302 – Cover and Article inside – by Alice Ioffrida
November 8th, 2025 – ArtsLife: Giuliana Storino e il coraggio di misurarsi con il tempo – by Francesco Liggieri
November 12th, 2025 – Exibart: Giuliana Storino a Venezia: una meditazione sul tempo come resistenza e trasformazione – by Jasmine Miraval
December 4th, 2025 – ReWriters: Giuliana Storino è a Venezia alla Galleria 10 & zero uno con “Canto alla durata” – by Elena Alfonsi
December 4th, 2025 – Artuu Magazine: Giuliana Storino, sogni d’acciaio e celle frigorifere. Per rivivere il tempo della memoria – by Alberto Mattia Martini
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