Saturday, July 12, 2025, at 6:00 PM, the Human Connections Gallery (HCG) will open its doors in the heart of Pietrasanta’s historic center, at Via Stagio Stagi 3. This new contemporary art gallery aspires to redefine the role of art as a shared space for connection, listening, and reflection. Founded with the aim of exploring the deep relationship between art and humanity, HCG presents itself as a dynamic platform intertwining visual languages, critical discourse, and editorial dimensions.
Located in the “city of sculpture,” historically a crossroads of artistic practices and international collaborations, the gallery emerges in a context that blends artisanal tradition with contemporary experimentation. This launch comes at a time when Pietrasanta is actively looking to the future, underscored by its candidacy for Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027.
Leading the artistic direction are Roberto Spinetta, an art director with curatorial experience in the visual arts, and Martina Melica, gallery director. During the vernissage, they will present the curatorial vision behind the project and introduce the first represented artists. HCG’s approach is thematic and relational: the works on view ranging across painting, sculpture, photography, and hybrid media will address urgent contemporary issues such as identity, the body, space, and human connection, offering a cross-generational and cross-media reflection.
Human Connections Gallery is not limited to its role as an exhibition space. It is also conceived as an editorial hub, a place for critical discussion, and a collaborative platform. The program will feature curated publications, in-depth events, and collaborations with both Italian and international artists and thinkers. The goal is to foster a fertile cultural ecosystem that generates transversal connections between artistic practice and critical discourse, between artworks and their context.
The opening will feature works by some of the gallery’s first represented artists: Filippo Tincolini, Antonio Tropiano, Laura Veschi, Andrea Crespi, and Giuseppe Veneziano each with a distinctive and coherent artistic voice, yet united by a shared desire to explore the present through forms that combine conceptual depth and visual impact.
With this new opening, Pietrasanta confirms its vocation not only as a place of artistic heritage but also as a vibrant center for contemporary experimentation and dialogue. Human Connections Gallery aims to be an active part of this process, establishing itself from the outset as a critical laboratory that moves beyond the self-referential logic of the white cube to engage with the real world its tensions, its stories, and its transformative potential.
The July 12th opening thus marks not only the launch of a new gallery, but the affirmation of a cultural project that sees art as a generative practice of connections, questions, and possibilities for change.