gallery rosenfeld is delighted to introduce Keita Miyazaki's site-specific installation Leghe Celesti in conversation with Andrea della Robbia's iconic works at the Rocca in Gradara, Italy.
In the heart of the Rocca of Gradara in Marche, Italy—where history resonates through arches, courtyards, and silence—an unexpected encounter unfolds. Leghe Celesti brings contemporary Japanese sculptor Keita Miyazaki into dialogue with Renaissance master Andrea della Robbia, initiating a conversation that transcends time, material, and tradition.
Curated by Riccardo Freddo and Luca Baroni, the installation offers a profound reflection on material transformation, spiritual resonance, and the enduring power of color.
Miyazaki’s sculptures—composed of salvaged car parts, steel, and intricately folded felt—emerge as post-industrial blooms, relics of a future archaeology. For this site-specific installation, Miyazaki embraces the iconic color palette of the Della Robbia tradition: radiant whites and celestial blues that once illuminated altarpieces and sacred reliefs. In the 15th century, these hues symbolized purity, devotion, and transcendence. By reactivating them through his process of fragmentation and reconstruction, Miyazaki builds a chromatic bridge across the centuries.
The exhibition title, Leghe Celesti (Heavenly Alloys), captures the core of this aesthetic and conceptual operation. The word leghe plays on both material and metaphorical meanings—referring to the physical fusion of metals, cherished in both Renaissance and industrial contexts, as well as to the blending of eras, cultures, and artistic languages. Celesti evokes not only the famed enamel blue of the Della Robbia works, which for centuries adorned saints and Madonnas, but also the spiritual and timeless dimension shared by both artists—each capable of making time vibrate with silent force.
Andrea della Robbia’s glazed terracottas, serene and luminous, speak of eternity and contemplation. In contrast, Miyazaki’s works pulse with tension—between the organic and mechanical, ruin and rebirth, silence and sound. Yet both share the same urgency: to transform matter into meaning.
Set within the medieval, literary-laden walls of the Rocca, the installation becomes a crossroads of time. It is not a didactic comparison, but a mutual listening. Until September 6, Leghe Celesti invites visitors into a suspended space—where Renaissance ceramics meet contemporary steel, and where white and blue, eternal and unchanging, continue to speak of beauty as a form of resistance.
This site-specific installation will be running until the 6th of September 2025.
Address:
Piazza V Novembre, 1,
61012
Gradara
Italy
Opening times:
Monday - Sunday | 9:00am - 7:00pm
