Since the Nineties, Simone Berti carries out a research focused on the concept of instability, a subject that has become a leitmotiv of a whole generation and has influenced the work of many other artists of the same generation. His first art works reflected on the human uncertainty and marginality through peculiar family portraits. His research soon collected from nature and landscape other figures that share the same instability: animals, architectures connected to surreal mechanisms. At MACRO Museum Berti presents new canvases in which he investigates the relationship between painted shapes, connecting icons sedimented in our collective imagination with abstract signs, in a game that evokes remote artworks and experimentations of XX century painting. He thus creates new icons suspended between past and present, where time becomes a different and innovative category thanks to the juxtaposition of colors and shapes. The artist finds new paths suspending his aesthetic verdict. Berti also constructed a special lamp that lights up some of the paintings, affecting the spectator’s sight and the atmosphere of the space.