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renaissance church in piacenza glows with scenographic lights in davide groppi’s exhibition

designboom | architecture & design magazine·@matthewburgosIdesignboom·2 months ago
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## **Decades of davide groppi’s work in piacenza exhibition** A monographic **exhibition** dedicated to Italian **light** designer Davide Groppi opens in Piacenza, Italy, inside the Church of Sant’Agostino on Stradone Farnese. Titled One hour of light and curated by Marco Sammicheli, director of the Museo del Design Italiano and curator of the design sector at Triennale Milano, the show is presented by the gallery Volumnia and runs through ## May 26 th, 2026. It traces forty years of Davide Groppi’s work, from his first lamps in the late 1980s to two new pieces unveiled for the occasion, positioning light as a material with emotional and architectural weight. The central nave of Sant’Agostino becomes the spine of the exhibition, as the designer divides the space using white, geometric volumes through freestanding architectural forms that visitors can move through.…

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