The Studio la Città gallery is continuing the research activity it began ten years ago in Venice and is organising, concurrently with the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, two exhibition projects on the Giudecca island. The exhibition itinerary develops across two floors, with two distinct installations. Recursions and Mutations presents works by Vincenzo Castella, Lynn Davis, Jacob Hashimoto, and Roberto Pugliese, while After J.M.W. Turner 1834-2019 is a solo show by the Japanese artist Hiroyuki Masuyama.   Recursions and Mutations examines the processes of reiteration and change in the poetics of four artists, as seen by the curator Daniele Capra. Vincenzo Castella, Lynn Davis, Jacob Hashimoto, and Roberto Pugliese have deliberately chosen each other or, rather, with the use of their own medium each has found in the creative process a common basis with the others on which to work. This reciprocal choice has made even more natural the development of the project: the work, with its recurring modes and approaches, is linked to its working dynamics, to environmental variables, and to the choice of subject. The show investigates how the process – which includes repetition, its validation, and the successive act of deviation/mutation – can be used as an analytical device for examining the reality that surrounds us. The same attitude shows itself to be necessary even for deciphering the extraordinary tools and the successive passages needed for constructing the work right up to the evolution of its physical and poetic form. Vincenzo Castella presents two series of photos in which nature has a central role: at times ephemeral and compressed inside a nursery, at others wild and uncontaminated as in the Finnish landscapes, but always elegant and captured through the originality of meaningful details. Lynn Davis, starting from an in-depth study of the icebergs and glaciers of Greenland begun in the 1980s, offers us an unusual view: her photos are shot as though the camera’s lens were immortalising the majesty of a monument, an imposing ancient example of architecture. Jacob Hashimoto relates together new works for the wall with a large-scale, site-specific installation consisting of hundreds of resin kites, recently exhibited in another composition at the SITE Museum in Santa Fe. His exhibition proposal explores the intersections between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration: he creates an imagery consisting of strata that evoke both virtual environments and historical traditions. Roberto Pugliese starts from thoughts about the melting of glaciers and the rising levels of the sea caused by global warming and confronts us with a work that transforms important scientific data into an installation: from a formal point of view, we see suspended blown-glass and crystalline ampoules with the immaterial yet constant presence of sound as an admonition.