Francesco Zorzi is happy to invite you to the second exhibition of installed works in his atelier in Amsterdam, ‘We Are Multitudes. We Are One’, a colorful constellation of paintings, drawings, and sculptural works created over the last two years. Here, color becomes a dialogue between human interiority and exteriority — inner life and the outer world — a resonance between what is felt and what is seen.
The works reflect on the dualistic nature of reality, both as matter and light, and on perception as consciousness unfolding — at once deeply personal and profoundly collective. Mirrors are used as symbols for the experience of the physical world, but also refer to the image of the self — both a reflection and a result of our perceptions, as individuals and within the collective space.
While colors in the artworks are physical and tactile (wax crayons and spray pigments), they reveal color itself as abstract and immaterial — a unified, boundless, and dynamic field of particles vibrating or frequencies resonating together. Each artwork is a still frame of the subjective experience of awareness, influenced directly by the consciousness and free will of the artist, in constant exchange with the perception and interpretation of the viewer.

The short film ‘MACULA/The Theater is in the Mind ’ (2019) is projected alongside the new works on show, in a parallel dialogue around the themes of perception, individuality, and collectivity present in both ‘We Are Multitudes. We Are One’ and the MACULA project.
After MACULA was interrupted in 2021 with the loss of his mother, FZ’s search for a new personal and artistic direction led him to continue expanding on the same themes: from vision and perception toward consciousness and the nature of reality itself.
The research and body of work from MACULA — its paintings, installations, and sculptures — form an essential step in FZ’s evolution, marking the beginning of an ongoing journey that continues in all later explorations.

Each work can be seen as a still frame of FZ’s inner worlds, expressed through color — the expression of his consciousness and free will. The way colors interact with each other reflects both their physical nature — how pigment and frequency blur, blend, and overlap — and the artist’s interior landscape, emotions,and feelings, always shaped in dialogue with the external conditions of the world in which they are immersed.
It also can be seen as a snapshot of just one of infinite perceptions of a single event seen from one of many nodes of the field, with a different perspective but within the field itself.
Everything connects, interacts, and changes endlessly. Each of us is an entire world, hidden behind the idea of one self — a node of awareness in a boundless field where limits and divisions are only mental constructs. As the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello wrote, we are ‘One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand ’ — all at once.
This dialogue happens not only between ourselves and others, but also among the many versions of ourselves. Every encounter paints a new portrait: others project their idea of who we are, while we do the same in return. Each exchange becomes a mirror, reflecting and reshaping identity.