Thinking Hands
Thinking Hands
Thinking Hands
Thinking Hands
Italy
Italy
Information
Venue
Jūshin Kaikan
Dates
9 October – 18 October 2026
Hours
09:30 – 17:00 · Last entry 16:30
Admission
Ticket required
Address
36 Nijūninkō-chō, Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, 600-8153, Japan
Curator
Maria Vittoria Baravelli
Coordination
De-Tales
This exhibition brings together four Italian artists whose work, though varied in technique and approach, is united by a focus on making as a meditative gesture. Whether repetitive and meticulous or immediate and spontaneous, this gesture becomes a common thread – one that transforms time, matter, and attention. Through processes that demand concentration and presence, the artists explore making not just as the production of form, but as a space for reflection and attentive awareness. The gesture – repeated or sudden – takes on an almost ritual quality, where thought settles into action and action itself becomes a form of language. A quiet dialogue emerges between artwork and process, where slowness, precision, and expressive urgency each reveal different ways of inhabiting time and shaping meaning.
Artists in this exhibition
Elena Ricci
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Elena Ricci was born in Rome in 1973, she has studied in Paris and lives and works in Milan since many years. Her work explores the boundary between the real and the imaginary, and between the rational and the irrational. Her images act as bridges, bringing the visible and the invisible into a close and subtle dialogue. She has re- cently exhibited her work at Monica De Cardenas Gallery and Viasaterna Gallery in Milan.
Discarcia
Pier Paolo Maggini
b. 1970, Pisa
Milan
Pier Paolo Maggini, born in Pisa in 1970, is a self-taught painter. His research, based on the relationship between the human condition, light, and space, has led him to numerous collaborations with Italian galleries. He has held many solo and group exhibitions, participated in international art fairs, and taken part in various awards. After living for a long time between Rome, London, and Milan, he now lives and works permanently in Milan
Andrea Chiaravalli
b. 1963
A Milanese artist born in 1963, he studied life drawing and the human form at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and engraving at the Academy for Artisans at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. He worked for 40 years as a jewellery designer, developing a personal and recognisable style, which is reflected in his paintings and prints. The jewellery and silverware he has designed have been displayed in various exhibitions, often alongside paintings depicting them. His works have been featured in newspapers and magazines covering fashion and design, from AD to Ideat, and from Case da abitare to ElleDecor. His painting style has evolved from swift brushstrokes to a more controlled approach, with a measured use of colour. He loves motorbike trips and extreme ultra-marathons, which he runs whilst immersed in nature: his latest paintings feature shadows, flowers, branches and dynamic lines.
World map, 2020.
Giulia Birindelli
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Giulia Birindelli was born in Rome in 1973 and has long been based in Milan, where she lives and works. Through a range of techniques, including embroidery, her practice explores the subtle space between silence and mark. Her most recent exhibition, held in November 2025, took place in Rome at Galleria Studio Sales, directed by Norberto Ruggeri. “Ours is a century in which the certainties and optimism of modernity are giving way to a deeper level of reality – ambiguous, uncertain presences that belong to human life and not merely to the globalized marketplace. (...) It is precisely this mysterious dimension that emerges in Giulia Birindelli’s work: wounded surfaces that transform verses into sacred texts, provisional poems that become eternal at the very moment they reveal their own incompleteness.” Andrea Branzi
Information
Venue
Jūshin Kaikan
Jūshin Kaikan
9 October – 18 October 2026
9 October – 18 October 2026
Dates
09:30 – 17:00 · Last entry 16:30
09:30 – 17:00 · Last entry 16:30
Hours
Closed
Admission
Admission
Ticket required
Ticket required
Address
Address
36 Nijūninkō-chō, Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, 600-8153, Japan
36 Nijūninkō-chō, Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, 600-8153, Japan
Curator
Maria Vittoria Baravelli
Coordination
Coordination
De-Tales
De-Tales
Concept
Concept
Music
Music
Film
Film
Exhibition Design
Exhibition Design
This exhibition brings together four Italian artists whose work, though varied in technique and approach, is united by a focus on making as a meditative gesture. Whether repetitive and meticulous or immediate and spontaneous, this gesture becomes a common thread – one that transforms time, matter, and attention. Through processes that demand concentration and presence, the artists explore making not just as the production of form, but as a space for reflection and attentive awareness. The gesture – repeated or sudden – takes on an almost ritual quality, where thought settles into action and action itself becomes a form of language. A quiet dialogue emerges between artwork and process, where slowness, precision, and expressive urgency each reveal different ways of inhabiting time and shaping meaning.
This exhibition brings together four Italian artists whose work, though varied in technique and approach, is united by a focus on making as a meditative gesture. Whether repetitive and meticulous or immediate and spontaneous, this gesture becomes a common thread – one that transforms time, matter, and attention. Through processes that demand concentration and presence, the artists explore making not just as the production of form, but as a space for reflection and attentive awareness. The gesture – repeated or sudden – takes on an almost ritual quality, where thought settles into action and action itself becomes a form of language. A quiet dialogue emerges between artwork and process, where slowness, precision, and expressive urgency each reveal different ways of inhabiting time and shaping meaning.
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Artists in this exhibition
Elena Ricci
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Elena Ricci was born in Rome in 1973, she has studied in Paris and lives and works in Milan since many years. Her work explores the boundary between the real and the imaginary, and between the rational and the irrational. Her images act as bridges, bringing the visible and the invisible into a close and subtle dialogue. She has re- cently exhibited her work at Monica De Cardenas Gallery and Viasaterna Gallery in Milan.
Biography
Elena Ricci
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Elena Ricci was born in Rome in 1973, she has studied in Paris and lives and works in Milan since many years. Her work explores the boundary between the real and the imaginary, and between the rational and the irrational. Her images act as bridges, bringing the visible and the invisible into a close and subtle dialogue. She has re- cently exhibited her work at Monica De Cardenas Gallery and Viasaterna Gallery in Milan.
Biography
Discarcia
Pier Paolo Maggini
b. 1970, Pisa
Milan
Pier Paolo Maggini, born in Pisa in 1970, is a self-taught painter. His research, based on the relationship between the human condition, light, and space, has led him to numerous collaborations with Italian galleries. He has held many solo and group exhibitions, participated in international art fairs, and taken part in various awards. After living for a long time between Rome, London, and Milan, he now lives and works permanently in Milan
Biography
Discarcia
Pier Paolo Maggini
b. 1970, Pisa
Milan
Pier Paolo Maggini, born in Pisa in 1970, is a self-taught painter. His research, based on the relationship between the human condition, light, and space, has led him to numerous collaborations with Italian galleries. He has held many solo and group exhibitions, participated in international art fairs, and taken part in various awards. After living for a long time between Rome, London, and Milan, he now lives and works permanently in Milan
Biography
Andrea Chiaravalli
b. 1963
A Milanese artist born in 1963, he studied life drawing and the human form at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and engraving at the Academy for Artisans at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. He worked for 40 years as a jewellery designer, developing a personal and recognisable style, which is reflected in his paintings and prints. The jewellery and silverware he has designed have been displayed in various exhibitions, often alongside paintings depicting them. His works have been featured in newspapers and magazines covering fashion and design, from AD to Ideat, and from Case da abitare to ElleDecor. His painting style has evolved from swift brushstrokes to a more controlled approach, with a measured use of colour. He loves motorbike trips and extreme ultra-marathons, which he runs whilst immersed in nature: his latest paintings feature shadows, flowers, branches and dynamic lines.
Biography
Andrea Chiaravalli
b. 1963
A Milanese artist born in 1963, he studied life drawing and the human form at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and engraving at the Academy for Artisans at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. He worked for 40 years as a jewellery designer, developing a personal and recognisable style, which is reflected in his paintings and prints. The jewellery and silverware he has designed have been displayed in various exhibitions, often alongside paintings depicting them. His works have been featured in newspapers and magazines covering fashion and design, from AD to Ideat, and from Case da abitare to ElleDecor. His painting style has evolved from swift brushstrokes to a more controlled approach, with a measured use of colour. He loves motorbike trips and extreme ultra-marathons, which he runs whilst immersed in nature: his latest paintings feature shadows, flowers, branches and dynamic lines.
Biography
World map, 2020.
Giulia Birindelli
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Giulia Birindelli was born in Rome in 1973 and has long been based in Milan, where she lives and works. Through a range of techniques, including embroidery, her practice explores the subtle space between silence and mark. Her most recent exhibition, held in November 2025, took place in Rome at Galleria Studio Sales, directed by Norberto Ruggeri. “Ours is a century in which the certainties and optimism of modernity are giving way to a deeper level of reality – ambiguous, uncertain presences that belong to human life and not merely to the globalized marketplace. (...) It is precisely this mysterious dimension that emerges in Giulia Birindelli’s work: wounded surfaces that transform verses into sacred texts, provisional poems that become eternal at the very moment they reveal their own incompleteness.” Andrea Branzi
Biography
World map, 2020.
Giulia Birindelli
b. 1973, Rome
Milan
Giulia Birindelli was born in Rome in 1973 and has long been based in Milan, where she lives and works. Through a range of techniques, including embroidery, her practice explores the subtle space between silence and mark. Her most recent exhibition, held in November 2025, took place in Rome at Galleria Studio Sales, directed by Norberto Ruggeri. “Ours is a century in which the certainties and optimism of modernity are giving way to a deeper level of reality – ambiguous, uncertain presences that belong to human life and not merely to the globalized marketplace. (...) It is precisely this mysterious dimension that emerges in Giulia Birindelli’s work: wounded surfaces that transform verses into sacred texts, provisional poems that become eternal at the very moment they reveal their own incompleteness.” Andrea Branzi
Biography
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