Ho l’agitescion from Michele Morando

Curator: Richard Neyroud

Italian Cultural Institute of Strasbourg
7 rue Schweighaeuser

Opening: May 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Exhibition: May 23 – June 19, 2026

Opening hours:
Monday–Thursday: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Friday: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Ho l’agitescion is an exhibition by Michele Morando rooted in childhood memories, marked by joy, anxiety, loss, and the manipulation of images.

Drawing from an expression with a familiar ring — Ho l’agitescion — meaning “I am anxious,” Michele Morando unfolds a series of protean works that resonate with his memories and rest on an intimate memory contaminated by the popular and television culture of the 1980s. Beneath the surface, childhood emerges in an ambiguous atmosphere, where innocence coexists with a diffuse violence, between alienation and unease.

Ho l’agitescion unfolds through a body of works comprising paintings, drawings, blown-glass objects, a concrete model, and a sound piece, presented as an evolving ensemble that remains in progress. Its exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute of Strasbourg brings together part of this corpus, reflecting both a stage in a four-year working process and an active exploration of the memory of a childhood marked by tensions.

Entertainment, intimate memory, and politics resonate with a single voice in an Italy struggling with its own malaise, caught between joys and the hubbub of television.

Inflatable Swan, 2025. Blown-glass sculpture. Dimensions: 15 × 23 × 16 cm.