Romeo Mivekannin - Black Mirror

This publication accompanies Romeo Mivekannin's first solo exhibition in Italy, presented across multiple rooms of Collezione Maramotti. Featuring around twenty new large-scale paintings on black velvet, the project expands the artist's wide-ranging visual universe with ideas sparked by his encounters with Emilia-Romagna and his dialogue with Italian art and culture. Drawing freely from classical painting, press photography, dance, cinema, and his own archives, Mivekannin reconstructs and inhabits iconic images - from Masaccio and Caravaggio to Pina Bausch, Pasolini, Parajanov, and Carax. In doing so, he shapes a shifting, multifaceted self-portrait that probes the legacy of history and the enduring presence of its "ghosts" in the present. At its core, the work questions the very notion of the Self, opening a broader reflection on the human condition.