I have always believed that the most interesting things emerge from relationships: between people, ideas, places, works and different moments in time.
QURA LETTER begins here.
I imagined it as a space to share, once a month, some of the things that move through my work and my life: ongoing projects, encounters, exhibitions, books, images, thoughts and the occasional glimpse of what is still to come.
It is not meant to tell you everything. Just what, at that particular moment, feels worth sharing.
Welcome to the first QURA LETTER.
Raffaele
Davide Bramante, My Own Rave, London (Ferris Wheel + Bridge), 2007. 150 × 100 cm. Lightbox with colour photograph created using an in-camera multiple-exposure technique, mounted on Plexiglas
DAVIDE BRAMANTE
Di luce
Galleria Studio Cenacchi · Bologna
24 October 2026 — 10 January 2027
There are exhibitions that begin with an artwork. Others begin with a place, an encounter or an idea. Di luce began with light.
On 24 October, Di luce, the exhibition I curated with Davide Bramante at Galleria Studio Cenacchi in Bologna, opens to the public.
I have always been fascinated by the way Davide uses photography not simply to reproduce reality, but to multiply it. Through multiple exposures, cities, architectures and fragments of different moments coexist within the same image. What we see is never just one place, but the memory of several places at once.
Di luce is also a reflection on light itself: on its ability to reveal, transform and change our perception of reality.
01 OPENING SHOW
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Davide Bramante, My Own Rave, Madrid (Retiro Park + Map), 2004. 230 × 150 cm. Colour photograph created using an in-camera multiple-exposure technique, mounted on Plexiglas
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Davide Bramante, My Own Rave, Beijing (Gazebo + Street), 2007. 150 × 100 cm. Colour photograph created using an in-camera multiple-exposure technique, mounted on Plexiglas
Photo by Mazen Jannoun
MARINELLA SENATORE
We Rise by Lifting Others
Masseria Torre Maizza, A Rocco Forte Hotel
Until 31 October 2026
Over the past months, We Rise by Lifting Others has become part of the life of Masseria Torre Maizza, bringing Marinella Senatore’s language of light, participation and collective energy into the landscape of Puglia.
I conceived the project as more than the presence of an artwork. The installation became a meeting point: something to encounter unexpectedly, to photograph, to gather around, and perhaps to carry away as a thought.
Its message is simple, but increasingly necessary: we rise by lifting others.
As the project approaches its final days at Torre Maizza, I like to think of its light remaining there in another form — in the encounters, conversations and images it has generated.
Until 31 October 2026.
02 FINISSAGE
Photo by Mazen Jannoun
ZENO BERTOZZI
In trasformazione
Vanillaedizioni · 2026
03 PUBLICATION
Some artists transform matter. Others seem to allow matter to reveal the time it contains.
In trasformazione, the new book dedicated to the work of Zeno Bertozzi, has just been published by Vanillaedizioni. I was very pleased to contribute a text to this volume, which offers an opportunity to enter more deeply into Zeno’s research and into a sculptural practice built around repetition, gesture, matter and time.
His surfaces are marked by an almost obsessive process: signs are repeated by hand until they become form, creating reliefs, traces and what Zeno himself describes as a kind of “plastic tattoo”.
The book is not simply a record of his work. It is another way of looking at a practice that is, as its title suggests, continuously in transformation.
ARCHLOVE
October 2026
04 NEW ISSUE
The new issue of Archlove is out.
Every issue is an opportunity to bring together different ways of looking at architecture, design and the way we inhabit the world. What interests me most is not simply presenting projects, but creating connections between ideas, people and perspectives.
This issue explores time, transformation and shared living — from architecture and urban space to the cultural questions that shape the environments around us.
As always, Archlove is an invitation to look beyond the surface and consider architecture not only as something we build, but as something that shapes the way we live.
That’s all for this month
See you on November 20
Raffaele