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Clima

Clima is a contemporary art gallery that was opened in Milan in 2016 by Francesco Lecci. Clima was founded with the desire and commitment to add new perspectives to the contemporary art scene. In 2021 Clarissa Grechi joined the gallery as partner.
The first gallery venue was in the Porta Venezia Contemporary Art District and was an apartment gallery space in an historical building which puts artists deeply and directly in relation with the historical fascination of the city. In September 2023 Clima moved to its second space located in the same district of Porta Venezia in a courtyard of an old Milanese building.
The gallery’s program includes solo exhibitions and group exhibitions, and the gallery also collaborates with Italian and international curators. Clima also organizes off-site exhibitions in selected venues in Italy with artists from different generations and backgrounds.

Via Lazzaro Palazzi 3, 20124 Milano, Italy

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Nicola Martini and Emma Masut

For the inaugural edition of Paris Internationale Milan, Clima presents a dialogue between two Italian artists: a new body of work on canvas by Emma Masut and two microcrystalline wax sculptures by Nicola Martini.

Clima, Nicola Martini - © Photo: Jacopo Menzani
Courtesy: The Artist and Clima, Milan, Paris Internationale

Nicola Martini, Sippe (Alessandro, Jacopo), 2026 Detail, Microcrystalline wax, bitumen and plaster, 35 x 110 x 35 cm

Emma Masut, Sleepers #2, 2025 Acrylics on canvas, 25 x 18 cm

Despite their different uses of medium, the presented artworks share a proximity in the way they generate a subtle tension within the surrounding environment and architecture. In Masut’s paintings, the represented time of the action appears suspended in an undefined moment -before or after the beginning, or the end, of an event- so that tension is perceived as a cognitive and psychological state. Martini’s sculptures, instead, reveal an ongoing operation between perception and materiality, giving space to an experimental process of becoming that foregrounds a physical tension inherent in the multiple configurations of the material itself. Hanged on the walls, Masut’s acrylic paintings, all rendered in nocturnal tones, depict motionless heavy heads, featureless hands, staged in unnatural positions revealing the artist’s intention to shape a private, intimate and restless everyday life. Dislocated throughout the space, Martini’s microcrystalline wax sculpture, coated in bitumen of Judea, reflect a geographical field of experimentation where the artist allows the physical properties of the substances to guide the final form of the object, highlighting the reactions between materials that evolve over time, generating reciprocal interactions and unstable equilibrium.

Nicola Martini

Nicola Martini (b. Florence, 1984) lives and works in Milan, IT.
In June 2024 Martini has been awarded with the Henraux Prize for Sculpture and in 2021 he was one of the recipients of Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.

In his sculptural practice, Martini employs various processes of destructuralization, embracing an object-oriented philosophical approach while shedding new light on the nature of materialism. Composed of organic and inorganic liquids, minerals, metals, plastics and re-used or archived materials, the work reflects the artist’s unique discourse on history, durations of time, and perception. Martini often conceives his installations as spaces of experience in which the audience perceives moments of proximity to these micro and macro components simultaneously.

Recent solo exhibitions: Nicola Martini and Kenji Ide at Clima, Milan (upcoming March 2026); Mangiatutto, organized by Una Boccata d’Arte, curated by Giulia Monroy, Custonaci (2025); 1669, Clima, Milan (2024); Testimone Perpetua, Toast, Florence (2022); Appunti dall’Inframezzo, Clima, Milan (2021); And welded skin, Galerie Philipp Zollinger, Zurich (2020); Molten, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Nicola Martini & Jacopo Menzani, Mega, Milan (2018); THE SOBER DAY, kaufmann repetto, New York (2015); Sippe, kaufmann repetto, Milan (2013); NERVO VAGO, cura- ted by Alberto Salvadori, Museo Marino
Marini, Florence (2012).

Recent group exhibitions: Group shows kill the group, 76° Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti (2025); Henraux Sculpture Prize, Henraux Foundation, Querceta (2024); Panorama, L’Aquila, curated by Cristiana Perrella (2023); La collezione Impermanente, curated by Lorenzo Giusti, Gamec (2021); 2020 Year of the rat, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin (2020); Performativity, curated by Denis Isaia and Sara Enrico, Centrale Fies, Dro, #80 | #90, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Villa Medici, Rome (2019); figure di spago. pratiche di narrazione, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, Black Hole, Gamec, Bergamo, TBT (Turn Back Time), Magazzino Arte Moderna, Rome (2018); As If We Never Said Goodbye, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Lea Porsager, Gizela Mickiewicz, Nicola Martini, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Intuition, curated by Alex Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2017); A occhi chiusi, gli occhi sono straordinariamente aperti, curated by Luca lo Pinto, 16th Quadrennial, Rome, Art club #7 / memoires d’été curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto Accademia di Francia a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome; Il principio è solo e solo un centro spostato verso il centro, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (2016).

Nicola Martini, Sippe (Not titled yet) 2026, Microcrystalline wax, bitumen and plaster, 47 x 72,5 x 2,5 cm

Nicola Martini, Sippe (Not titled yet) 2026 Detail

Emma Masut

Emma Masut (b. Palmova, 2001) lives and works in Bologna, IT.

She’s currently enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, at the Visual Arts department.

Her research moves between the practices of drawing and painting, which in her work take shape as spaces for archiving and developing small obsessions, mysteries, premonitions, and crimes.

Recent solo exhibitions: Clima, Milan (upcoming September 2026); To Catch a Fly, Ann Mazzotti Gallery, Basel (2025).

Recent group exhibitions: Il Giardino delle risonanze, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna; Hide and Seek, Gelateria sogni di ghiaccio, Bologna (2025); Per un’idea del colore, curata da Luca Caccioni, Luca Campestri e Olivia Teglia, Casa Saraceni, Bologna; Interferenze, curata da Simona Maria Pagano, Sof : art, Bologna (2024).

Emma Masut, Sleepers #2, 2025 Acrylics on canvas, 25 x 18 cm