The title of this exhibition, a phrase by Paul Valery which is quoted by Italo Calvino in the notes of his Norton Lecture on “lightness”, expresses the idea that to fly, to leave the bounds of gravity, to reach higher and to head for the skies is to expend effort, concentration, and volition.

Richard Long’s fifth solo exhibition at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill is dedicated to mud paintings, with a selection of works starting from 2005 up to works made in the past two months on canvas and on Fabriano paper. The show also includes a line made on site using Italian Serpentino stone.

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill is pleased to announce Three Romans, an exhibition featuring the most recent works by Emiliano Maggi, Marco Palmieri, and Gianni Politi. These young Roman artists have contributed to invigorating the contemporary art scene in Rome and extending it internationally.

James Bidgood, while making his extraordinarily influential underground film "Pink Narcissus" in 1959, made a series of photographs of the young actors in the "underwater" sets. These now rare colour photographs, developed and printed in a local drugstore, will be shown alongside black and white photographs made by John Maybury, the British experimental film-maker, at the Temple of Segeste in Sicily.