New painting corpus · Rome · 2026

STANZE

A new corpus about rooms: solitude, love, suffering, adolescence and maturity, from the first instant of a love to its end.

01—31

31 works · digital painting and AI · projects for unique works on paper

A psychic atlas in thirty-one rooms

A continuing genealogy

The room has never been a backdrop.

Since 2008, Massimo Scognamiglio has returned to the room as an architecture of the inner life. STANZE does not close that history: it opens its newest threshold.

012008
Cycle of Rooms
The room appears as a mental perimeter: bodies, corners, thresholds and silences.
022024
Rooms, again
The figure returns to test what has changed in desire, age and memory.
032026
The Gold Standard
Gold becomes light, value and distance inside the inhabited space.
04Now
STANZE
Words, digital painting, AI, paper, tearing and gold leaf enter the same living body.

The new corpus

Love begins in a room. It often ends there too.

These works move between solitude and proximity. A body waits, two bodies touch, a couple separates, children remain alone, sleepers abandon themselves to the ground. Adolescence and maturity share the same rooms, but they do not inhabit them in the same way.

Red, black, earth and gold do not describe interiors: they measure emotional pressure. Walls expand around a single figure or collapse around an embrace. What is outside becomes increasingly remote, until the world remains beyond the room.

STANZE continues the artist’s historical research into the human figure and psychic space while changing the process that brings the image into being.

Digital painting · Artificial intelligence

The machine reads the subconscious.

AI is not asked to invent an artist. It receives language, memory, obsessions and visual decisions. The prompt becomes a transmission: words cross the machine and return as an image to be judged, altered and brought back into matter by the artist.

300.000km/sspeed of light