Siena, in San Quirico d’Orcia the quantum man of Meggiato along the Via Francigena

The works on display – a note informs – fully reflect the character of the initiative: celebrating forms in greenery to unite art with nature. In detail, leading the 2026 edition of ‘Forme nel verde’ are Meggiato’s monumental sculptures with ‘In Itinere. Quantum Man on the move. An inner journey along the Via Francigena’. The exhibition is accompanied by a critical contribution by Domenico Piraina, director of Culture of the municipality of Milan and Palazzo Reale, and is in collaboration with Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition opens in the sixteenth-century Horti Leonini and continues in the historic centre, in Palazzo Chigi Zondadari – where a corpus of 30 unpublished drawings is exhibited in an international preview – and continues in one of the most beautiful places in the whole Val d’Orcia: the famous ‘cypress trees’ in a circle immersed in the landscape which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a destination for tourists from all over the world, and where the work ‘Germination’, a monumental sculpture by 6 meters high.

The title of the exhibition and Meggiato’s works accompany an important anniversary: ​​the 1,150 years of the Via Francigena which are celebrated this year and which mark the meeting between the thousand-year-old route – 3 thousand kilometers connecting Canterbury (UK) to Rome, through 5 European states – and the visions of quantum physics, which in the twentieth century radically transformed the way of understanding reality, matter, time and consciousness.

In the suspended landscape of San Quirico d’Orcia, the journey turns into an open question: what are we really looking for as we move towards a destination? In the ancient time of pilgrimage, and even today, man crosses landscapes, villages, silences and seasons to reach a sacred destination. But every true external journey – explain the organizers – contains a path that goes in another direction, invisible and deeper: towards oneself, into consciousness. The destination is not Rome and it is not a physical destination: it is the understanding of oneself and one’s relationship with everything. Just as the observer is not external to the phenomenon but an integral part of it, in the same way the pilgrim does not only pass through the landscape: the landscape also passes through his mind and body. Every step changes the gaze, every distance becomes an internal experience, every encounter is a transformation.

In the concept of the exhibition, quantum man is, then, a symbolic figure of our time, a human being who, in the midst of contemporary complexity, returns to question his own presence in the world. In the quantum world nothing appears separate: every particle exists as a relationship, possibility, vibration. And so knowledge is not just the accumulation of information, but living experience, awareness, listening. Through works, images, sounds and visions, the exhibition invites the visitor to follow an itinerary that combines science and spirituality, perception and memory, visible and invisible reality. The Via Francigena becomes a metaphor for a universal crossing: man’s journey within his own conscience. It is a dialogue between art, journey and conscience, where man’s journey through the world reveals, once again, that every authentic pilgrimage is an internal, spiritual journey.

San Quirico d’Orcia and the Val d’Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site – concludes the note – welcome Meggiato’s exhibition itinerary starting from the Horti Leonini where 18 sculptures are on display: Towards freedom; Gold frequencies; Concepts of spatial synchronicity; The mirror of the Absolute; Comics in search of an author; Sirius Sphere; Scorpius; Heart Sphere; Aquarius Sphere; Disco Cabala; Atman Sphere; Energy Cone; The lightness of being; Dancing in the dark; Venus; Quantum Sphere, Quantum Breath. They are installed in the historic center; Attimo Fuggente, in Piazza Libertà; Double Totem in via Dante and Quantum Man in front of the ancient Collegiate Church, a Romanesque church dating back to the 13th century and a symbolic monument of San Quirico.