Corpo Liquido: the second event of the Alchimie series with works by Gianluca Marinelli

In the silence of the barrel cellar, where wine rests and slowly transforms, the body becomes fluid matter. With LIQUID BODY | Matter, sensuality, vibrations, Gianluca Marinelli brings to the space of Tenute Rubino a new series of ceramic sculptures that present themselves as ambiguous presences, sensitive remnants of an ongoing process. Not finished forms, but fragments—relics of something that seems to emerge from another time: perhaps the future, perhaps already past.

Marinelli’s practice moves along a double trajectory. On the one hand, a historical and analytical research that questions the contemporary through the history of art; on the other, a more intimate and diaristic investigation, tied to lived experience and to the physical need of making. It is within this second dimension that ceramics become a privileged language: an archaic and transformative material, capable of retaining the gesture and recording the passage of heat as a generative act.

The sculptures on display appear as consumed bodies, crossed by internal tensions, magmatic surfaces that evoke skin, organs, fluids. Fire—the alchemical agent par excellence—acts as a force of erosion and explosion, generating forms that are difficult to decipher yet deeply sensual. The chromatic rendering, suspended between glass and metal, amplifies this perceptual ambiguity, placing the objects on an unstable threshold between familiarity and otherness.

In a silent dialogue with the barriques, these works resonate with the life of wine: a liquid organism that vibrates, breathes, and transforms over time. Liquid Body thus becomes an immersive experience, where matter and body intertwine, and sculpture turns into a sensitive space of change.

A sensory experience starring Visellio 2021, an iconic Primitivo that enters into dialogue with the works and with Gianluca Marinelli’s artistic vision.

Visellio is an award-winning cru, intense and powerful, aged in barrique. A wine with great extractive strength, capable of enclosing in the glass the deep aromas of Puglia and the Mediterranean, offering the palate softness, elegance, and a long, enveloping persistence: an authentic extract of Salento. Its name is rooted in the ancient history of this land, recalling the Roman fundus where amphorae were once produced to carry Apulian wine throughout the Mediterranean.