Fernand Léger!

Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Keith Haring…

Exhibition design, graphic, light, and color design for a major show dedicated to Fernand Léger, pioneer of modern visual language, set in dialogue with European and American artists from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The exhibition highlights Léger’s legacy and its resonance with the Nouveau Réalistes, whose radical use of everyday objects and the emerging aesthetics of consumer culture transformed artistic practice. The project draws on works from the Musée national Fernand Léger (Biot) and MAMAC (Nice), with key loans from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The design project, developed in collaboration with Marilivia Minnici, activates and updates this intergenerational dialogue, foregrounding vitality, technical experimentation, and a powerful relationship with daily life—evoking a moment when making art was also a place of play.

The color scenography blends desaturated hues with vivid accents, allowing the primary tones of the artworks to vibrate in an unstable, unexpected harmony.

The graphic language is playful yet incisive, articulated through a combination of vinyl lettering, direct printing, and hand-painted wall texts. A large graphic wall maps the core action-verbs of the Nouveau Réalistes through a contextual timeline, paired with an extensive selection of period photographs.

Chromatic lighting extends the curatorial intent into the monumental spaces of the Reggia di Venaria, shaping a layered and contemporary reading of the works.

2025
Reggia
di Venaria

CURATORSHIP
Anne Dopffer, Julie Guttierez, Rébecca François

EXHIBITION DESIGN
Marilivia Minnici, Eleonora Diana, Sara Maragotto

EXHIBITION GRAPHIC DESIGN
Chiara Costa, with Sofia Salvatori

COLOR DESIGN
Sara Maragotto

LIGHT DESIGN AND ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Eleonora Diana