Matteo Bernasconi

Reprise brings together a selection of works by Matteo Bernasconi, creating a new dialogue between painting, material, and meaning. Through expressive gestures, layered surfaces, and an exploration of the human condition, Bernasconi’s work invites us to consider the spaces between presence and absence, certainty and ambiguity, and what lies beneath the surface.

At the heart of the exhibition is In Between, a painting by Matteo Bernasconi transformed into a mosaic by Caitlin Hepworth of Hepworth Studios.

Translating the original painting into mosaic, Hepworth reinterprets its colour, form and gesture through a new material language. The fluidity of paint gives way to the texture, rhythm and permanence of individual tesserae, creating a work that honours the original while establishing its own distinct identity.

The exhibition’s  embodying themes are of transformation, collaboration and reinterpretation. It demonstrates how an artwork can take on a new life through the meeting of different artistic practices, opening up fresh ways of seeing and experiencing an image.

The title Reprise speaks to this process of return and renewal — revisiting familiar ideas while allowing space for new perspectives and meanings to emerge.