From 13 December 2025 to 6 April 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cavalese presents There is so much we can learn from the sun, a solo exhibition by Marinella Senatore, the most internationally recognised Italian contemporary artist today. Senatore is known for her extraordinary ability to engage and energise thousands of people, while never losing that poetic dimension in which audiences can find themselves reflected as narrating voices.
Starting from the new collage that gives the exhibition its title, There is so much we can learn from the sun, created in the spirit of community, empowerment and emancipation – “As an artist, my role is to activate a mechanism within the work itself, with the intention of generating a transformative force that arises from the encounter between its constituent elements and ultimately reaches the viewer,” explains Senatore – the works on display turn the exhibition into an extraordinary experience of vision, imagination and social interaction, in which bodies take centre stage.
That of Marinella Senatore, for example, in her Autoritratto works — one on canvas and one sculptural — and ours, just like those of the eight million people whom Senatore has involved in her practice to date.
In front of the paintings from the Make it shine series, the luminous glass sculptures (I Contain Multitudes), the neon works — Breathe, U Are Enough; Remember the First Time You Saw Your Name; We Rise by Lifting Others; Dance First Think Later — the collages from the The School of Narrative Dance – Storyline series, and, not least, the luminaria Alliance des corps, which will open onto the backdrop of Cavalese, defining within the space a special environment where everyone can celebrate encounter and exchange. Each of us, each viewer, is no longer merely an envelope, but an attitude, an evolution of our very being.
The power of the exhibition, which seeks to engage and energise people, will animate the museum and beyond: There is so much we can learn from the sun will in fact extend outside the Palazzo, transforming Piazzetta Rizzoli 1 into a magical setting through five large textile works (I Contain Multitudes). These pieces evoke the tradition of banners as well as the large fabric posters of workers’ and trade-union movements, and will fly for the entire duration of the exhibition from tall poles crafted by local artisans, using locally sourced wood, in line with the artist’s and the museum’s desire to forge an even deeper relationship with the community that surrounds us.
