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3 October 2025
1 February 2026
Palazzo Roverella presents a refined retrospective dedicated to one of the great masters of contemporary photography: Rodney Smith. His images, impeccable in composition and full of poetry and irony, transport the viewer to worlds suspended between reality and imagination. A visual journey through perfect proportions, surreal lightness and delicate harmonies, which reveals Smith’s ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The exhibition runs from 3 October 2025 to 1 February 2026
Monday – Friday: 9.00am – 7.00pm
Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: 9.00am – 8.00pm
Last access one hour before closing.
Palazzo Roverella
via Laurenti 8/10, Rovigo
+39 0425 460093
info@palazzoroverella.com
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A fascinating journey through four centuries (15th through 18th) of masterpieces and a stunning 22 meters diorama dating back to the 19th century. Part of the city’s most prestigious collection.
Rodney Smith, Caroline at the Top of Circular Staircase, Charleston, South Carolina, 2000
Everything is carefully obliterated, like the steps that lead to a secret place that cannot be returned to, since every trace has been covered. Only Smith knows how to access it, since this place belongs to him. It was he, like a divine geometer, who drew its contours. In this place, the sun is always at midday, at its solstice: there is no shadow cast to attest to the reality of what one sees, since an object without a shadow does not exist. Here, day does not rejoin night, night will no longer spill over into the next morning – everything is crystallized like a sliver of light stuck forever in the permanence of the world. Time is an invention of human beings, eternity belongs to the divine. Each image of Smith takes us back to a lost paradise where white light reigns supreme.
Rodney Smith, Caroline silhouette no.1, Ashley Hall, South Carolina, 2000
These passages together form an underground gallery in which Smith precedes us and guides us, but it is up to us to choose the destination of this nocturnal journey. Images like arrows shot through the centuries, tear the human sky and open onto an ancestral night of remote times. If painting is a “mental thing”, as Leonardo da Vinci said, Smith demonstrates to what extent art draws inspiration from the Platonic idea that precedes it.