Silvio Wolf. L’Altrove

From February 24th to March 21st 2026, BUILDING TERZO PIANO presents L’Altrove [The Elsewhere], a solo exhibition by the artist Silvio Wolf (Milano, 1952), which brings together a selection of historical, recent, and unpublished photographic works created by the artist between 1989 and 2026, exploring the themes of Threshold, Absence, and Elsewhere. The exhibition also presents Aperture II (2009/2026), a visual and acoustic installation – with composition and sound design by Tiziano Crotti – conceived specifically for the exhibition space: an artwork in where reality is activated through each visitor’s experience, making them a co-author of a device in which time and image coincide in the present moment of the experience.
Simultaneously, at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia, the work Piccolo Myhrab Monumentale (1990) is on view, in which the artist tackles the themes of elsewhere and the threshold through the three-dimensional photographic reconstruction of an architectural element from Islamic tradition.

The ten works on display explore the enigma of space and the nature of the images that represent it, understood as places of experience and as thresholds between presence and absence, between here and elsewhere, true “metaphors of space and symbols of places”. In Wolf’s work, the threshold is configured as a site of knowledge: a space that invites us to pause, looking, and meditation. It is at this point that reality and imagination come into contact. His photographs point toward possible paths and otherness, presenting themselves as places of transition that connect and separate at the same time, offering simultaneous visions of interior and exterior.

Silvio Wolf reflects on the ambiguous mechanisms of perception and on the way in which images translate the multidimensionality of reality into the two-dimensionality of photographic representation, placing itself on the borderline between the visible and the invisible: a boundary that overlooks two connected worlds that could not exist without each other, since, as the artist states: “everything that unites also separates”.

The places depicted by the artist are defined by ambiguous architectural forms, whose images become perceptual and existential thresholds, stations along a symbolic journey of which he offers us a mysterious visual evidence. His photographs arise from a virtual tearing enacted through light. The represented object remains intact and the material unaltered untouched, but virtually transposed, through the act of photographing, into an elsewhere in space and time. This act of extraction from reality constitutes the artist’s appropriation of something that already belongs to him deeply and is waiting to be seen and recognized.

As Wolf observes: “My predilection for places of transition perhaps indicates that photography, as a symbolic language, can be thought of as a threshold between visible reality and its multiple levels of interpretation, the boundary and point of coincidence between the material and immaterial, real and possible. Photography is an interface, the place of contact between the Self and the real. Each work arises from an encounter that questions the space that separates us from what we see: it is in that subtle gap that I continue to search”.

During the exhibition period, the artist’s book Dal Libro della Vita [From the Book of Life], published by Prearo Editore (Milan) in 2026, will be presented at BUILDING TERZO PIANO. This bilingual book (Italian and English) consists of 15 original limited edition prints signed by Silvio Wolf and inserted into French-style quartini, enclosed in a black silk-lined box. The volume, accompanied by a conversation between Alberto Fiz and Silvio Wolf, summarises 45 years of the artist’s visual and existential research on the themes of the Threshold, Absence and Elsewhere.