Galleria Fumagalli hosts Fuori come fiori, the first solo exhibition in Milan by Luca Boffi (Milan, 1991). Fuori come fiori is a series of material and metaphorical, tactile, olfactory as well as visual works. They are meadows to be walked on naked, landscapes to be glimpsed in the photographs on fabric superimposed on the materials. Arranged to recall the line of the plain, the works tell of two everyday surroundings: that of the various collected elements, exhibited in details close to the senses, and that of the more distant appearances: the horizon, the farmhouses resting on it, the aqueducts, the farm machinery, the trees. ‘Outside I gathered. I gathered the silt from the Secchia river after the flood; the white flowers of the wild carrot, shaped like the sun; the prickly field thistle almost blown by the wind; the red berries of viburnum, then dark like those of the elderberry in late summer; the panicle Glauco (Pabi, in Modenese dialect), an unwelcome presence in the fields. As flowers again I gathered maize, poplar wood, cow shit, long corn leaves, ivy, red clay soil of the plain that becomes a hill. White millet I gathered, favourite meal of the birds around the house, and horse shavings, and coal. I composed them, mixed them, fixed them on panels of the same size, so that the geometric repetition of the paintings would pick up on the geometries of the terrain distributed in the same way'.