Repetto Gallery

At BRAFA 2026, Repetto Gallery presents a dialogue which traces the shifting landscape of European modernism through the 20th century. This special preview brings together seven of the artists selected for our booth: Valerio Adami, Christo, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, and Victor Vasarely. Though their paths differ - rooted in Surrealism,
Dada, Nouveau Réalisme, and Op Art - each of these artists shares an impulse to reimagine the conditions of seeing and being. 

Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical squares and silent architectures introduce a world where time stands still, where the dream precedes the image. From that stillness, Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters draw motion: Ernst’s surrealist transformations of nature and psyche, and Schwitters’ collages that reassemble the debris of the modern world into new harmonies. Jean Dubuffet turns to raw matter and gesture.

Christo, by contrast, veils and wraps - his drawings capturing the paradox of concealment as a form of revelation, where the hidden becomes a new kind of visible. In Victor Vasarely’s optical geometries, structure vibrates into sensation; the visual field itself becomes alive, unstable, participatory. And Valerio Adami, with his incisive line and luminous color, reconstructs the image as a space of thought - where narrative unfolds through contour and symbol. Together, these artists propose a map of modernity in motion: their works speak to one another across decades, converging on a shared question - how art might continue to invent new forms of meaning within the flux of the twentieth century and beyond.