October 8 – December 2, 2026
Opening: Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
Hours: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., except Mondays and holidays
Via Senato, 24, 20121, Milan
On the centennial of Alik Cavaliere’s birth, in collaboration with the Alik Cavaliere Art Center, Studio Guastalla pays tribute to the great sculptor with the exhibition “Long Live Freedom,” a title that references one of Cavaliere’s sculptural cycles and, more broadly, his artistic practice.
Not only did Alik experiment with countless techniques and materials throughout his long career—using everything from terracotta to concrete, bronze to wood, found objects to water, and even music in his installations—but some of his works also directly denounce dictatorship, such as *Omaggio all’America Latina* (Homage to Latin America), a 1971 performance created with Emilio Scanavino. Freedom is the common thread running through Alik Cavaliere’s entire career, whose roots lie in classical culture. His intellectual model is Lucretius, the poet and philosopher who viewed nature as a realm of infinite possibilities, of continuous metamorphoses, and of a vitality that eludes all coercion—a freedom that humans fear but which, in nature, is uncontrollable unless the human hand intervenes to cage and repress it. From this vision of a nature that is constantly transforming—following a continuous cycle of decomposition and aggregation—emerge plant forms: branches, trees, and fruits, which do not merely illustrate reality but reveal its vital, initiatory aspects (to use a term coined by Arturo Schwarz, his close friend and gallery owner).
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