Arco Gallery is pleased to present An Alchemy of Matter, an exhibition bringing together two artists who create contemporary paintings with the surfaces and spirit of ancient art.

Gregory Kitterle’s paintings merge the figurative and the abstract in dreamlike environments that feel at once surreal and timeless. His mastery of techniques dating back to the Renaissance gives his surfaces a layered, tactile presence—glazings, metal leaves, and fresco-like textures that seem centuries old—yet his light is startlingly alive, cutting across the surface with dramatic intensity. These enigmatic spaces suggest inner transformation, where symbols and forms are endlessly reconfigured.

Orazio De Gennaro, born in Sannio near Pompeii, works directly with elemental matter. Using marble dust, lime, sand, and fire, he creates canvases that feel unearthed, their surfaces echoing the aura of ancient frescoes—suspended between splendor and catastrophe. Infused with the volcanic soil and Mediterranean light of his homeland, his paintings embody both fragility and resilience, offering a vision that is archaic and immediate at once.

Placed in dialogue, Kitterle and De Gennaro emerge as ancient souls with contemporary visions, artists whose works carry memory and renewal, opening surfaces to the past and to the unknown of the present.