Rubino Art Project

RAP – Rubino Art Project

Born from an idea by Luigi and Romina to give voice to a heritage of values and experiences that has its fulcrum in the connection, deep yet innovative, with the territory and the city, promoting its resources and image.
To seek beauty in wine through the combination with art, a seductive encounter between two parallel paths that encapsulates the entire history and culture of a civilization.

RAP aims to develop, with continuity and constancy, the relationship with contemporary artists by entrusting them with the creation of a work dedicated to a theme, different every year.

The goal of the initiative is to build, over time, a true Collection of contemporary art, to be housed in the spaces of the new upcoming Jaddico winery, and to offer wine tourists and citizens a series of cultural and exhibition events in a territory with over 2,000 years of vine civilization and wine culture.

RAP Rubino Art Project

ALCHIMIE

ALCHEMIES, a journey through contemporary sculpture and wine culture, where matter, light, and landscape come together in a single, vibrant sensory experience.
The project was born from the desire to give continuity to RAP’s vision and finds an evocative setting in the panoramic corridor overlooking the barrel cellar, transformed for the occasion into a space suspended between aromas, silences, forms, and creative ferment.
Four events, four artists, and four different ways of interpreting art that comes to life and transforms—and through different materials, becomes a message and a dialogue between the artist and the guest.

Renzo Buttazzo — FERMENTA | The energy that transforms
Gianluca Marinelli — CORPO LIQUIDO | Matter, sensuality, vibrations
Riccardo Masini — MEMORIE DI TANNINO | Time, sedimentation, memory
Daniele Papuli — EXTRAVERGINE | Nature, roots, a return to the origins

ALCHIMIE - RAP Project - Tenute Rubino

Previous editions

  1. Gianluca Marinelli — LIQUID BODY
    Matter, Sensuality, Vibrations. From 20 February 2026 to 3 April 2026

    Gianluca Marinelli’s sculptural exploration, poised between imperfection and harmony, presents ceramics capable of retaining the memory of the gesture. His works, often marked by a restrained dynamism and a subtle narrative tension, will create an intimate, material space in which clay becomes story, anticipation, and revelation.

  2. Renzo Buttazzo — FERMENTA
    The Energy of Transformation: from 20 December 2025 to 30 January 2026

    He is the artist who sparked the project: Renzo Buttazzo, a master of Lecce stone, able to infuse matter with a vibration that is at once archaic and contemporary. The vision for ALCHIMIE was born from a visit to his studio: sculptures that seem to emerge from a remote time and that, in dialogue with the soft lighting of the barrel cellar, find a poetic echo of surprising resonance.

  3. Edition 2022

    RAP – RADICI

    The theme of the first edition is RADICI, a concept with multiple meanings.

    From the cultural roots that define people’s traditions and ways of life and shape their sensibilities and tastes, to the bond with the land.

    The task of the ten artists will therefore be to celebrate, with creativity and vision, a sensory universe linked to the local area and to wine of the highest quality, transforming the value of the experience lived at Jaddico into a work of art that will enhance the new spaces of the emerging winery.