DRL Programme Head Theodore Spyropoulos opens a solo three-floor exhibition, Quantum, with his studio Minimaforms at Rocca Pia Castle in Tivoli, Italy

Quantum, a solo exhibition by DRL Programme Head Theodore Spyropoulos and his studio Minimaforms, has opened at Rocca Pia Castle in Tivoli, Italy. Marking a century of quantum science and technology, the project celebrates Tivoli’s connection to Emilio Segrè and Enrico Fermi, bridging art, science and philosophy through an exploration of relationality. Open until 1 February 2026, the exhibition transforms the medieval castle into a spatial experiment of perception and presence.

The opening featured distinguished scientists Professor Giorgio Parisi (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021) and Professor Luciano Maiani (former Director-General of CERN), and honoured Tivoli-born physicist Emilio Segrè (1905–89), renowned for discovering the antiproton, a breakthrough that earned him the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Owen W Chamberlain.

Quantum invites visitors to contemplate 'worlds within worlds', where observation and imagination co-shape reality. Within Rocca Pia’s historic geometry, sculptural works, films and large-scale projections unfold across the courtyard and towers, transforming the site into a living field of interaction.

Drawing on George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form, Carlo Rovelli’s reflections on time, and Roger Penrose’s investigations of black holes, Quantum envisions a cosmology in which past and future dissolve into the ever-present. Through this dialogue of art and physics, Minimaforms propose a poetic architecture of relation, one that invites audiences to reflect on perception, agency and the evolving structures of the world we inhabit.