Poem without word is the title of the group exhibition that Studio la Città will open on Saturday 25 November at 11 a.m. in the spaces of lungadige Galtarossa 21 in Verona.

The exhibition is the brainchild of Hélène de Franchis who invited Stanislao Vialardi, a young collector, to think about a selection of young artists in his collection who are not represented by Studio la Città.

Vialardi's choice fell on Cleo Fariselli, Francesca Ferreri, Sophie Ko, Renato Leotta, Agathe Rosa, Manuel Scano Larrazàbal and Serena Vestrucci. The title Poem without word is borrowed from a song written in 1987 - made famous in 1993 as a techno track - and refers to the 'apple time' years of the collector-curator and the generation of artists chosen for the exhibition, all born in the 1980s.

Another reason, in addition to anagraphic and generational contingency, lies behind Vialardi's choice, which he explains as follows: this exhibition is intended as a personal tribute to the research and scientific popularisation work of the physicists Guido Tonelli and the Veronese Carlo Rovelli: explorers of 'otherworlds', discoverers of phenomena that change the story of the origin of the universe and consequently the narrative of our origins. I believe that a tale of such magnitude should be sung by the poetry of art: without words, but in a manner as charged and dense as the emptiness of physics'. The works of these artists have accompanied my gaze and thoughts in the recent reading of these great scientists that we are lucky enough to live with in the present.

Stanislao and Francesca Vialardi began collecting through the suggestions born from the Panza di Biumo Collection and the work of Axel Verwoordt, and then approached Studio la Città by encountering the works of artists such as David Simpson, Emil Lukas, Stuart Arends, Herbert Hamak, and Mirco Marchelli. Later, their research and interest also turned to other younger artists whose most recent works are presented in the exhibition.

Painting, performance, sculpture, photography and various media, sometimes combined together, sometimes individually, characterise the works of the exhibited artists, some of which were created especially for the exhibition.