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.

The layout follows a sequence of rooms, where inside each volume, lamps sit or hang or fall into the space, creating pools of light that Davide Groppi…