Daniele Papuli’s EXTRAVERGINE closes the ALCHIMIE cycle

From 26 June to 19 September 2026, the barrel cellar of Tenute Rubino will host EXTRAVERGINE | Nature, Roots, Return to the Origin, a solo exhibition by Daniele Papuli.

The exhibition marks the fourth and final chapter of ALCHIMIE | Art, Matter, Wine: Transformations, the contemporary art series by the Rubino Art Project, created to explore the dialogue between creativity, matter and wine culture.

After stone, ceramics and wood, paper brings the exhibition journey to a close: an apparently fragile material that, in Papuli’s research, becomes a sculptural presence, a landscape, a living organism.

Through cutting, layering and recomposition, the artist transforms the sheet into a dynamic and sensitive material. Paper loses its ordinary identity and takes on new forms: it may recall a root, bark, sediment, a body in transformation.

Conceived for the space of the barrel cellar, EXTRAVERGINE unfolds as an immersive installation that dialogues with the wood of the barrels, the half-light of the place and the slow time of wine. Its deep tones, ranging from dark red to rosewood and bougainvillea, create a material landscape that changes with the light and with the gaze of those who move through it.

The title evokes a return to the origin: not as nostalgia, but as a possibility of regeneration. Paper preserves the memory of the tree from which it comes and, through the artistic gesture, seems to reconnect with its natural matrix.

During the exhibition, guests will have the opportunity to taste Torre Testa Rosato, a fresh and luminous wine, light in its pace yet important in structure. The choice also stems from a visual and material affinity: its label enhances paper as a sensitive element, capable of preserving signs, reliefs and memory.

EXTRAVERGINE | Nature, Roots, Return to the Origin
Daniele Papuli
Curated by Ilaria Caravaglio
Rubino Art Project – Tenute Rubino
From 26 June to 19 September 2026
Tenute Rubino, Via Enrico Fermi 50 – Brindisi

To attend, please register here: link