Last May, the Italian installation artist Gian Maria Tosatti became the first solo artist to exhibit at the Biennale’s Italian Pavilion, where he put on a 20,000-square-foot spectacle. Tosatti created a large warehouse that stood dilapidated in dim light with rusting tools. It was envisioned as a commentary on the negative impacts of Italy’s postwar industrialization. Tosatti was born in Rome in 1980, studied performance there and in Pontedera and Warsaw, and lived in New York for nine years, until 2018. He now lives in Naples and his practice focuses on abandoned spaces in which he can tell stories, often haunting. “I wanted to come back to my land, my history, with all the problems Europe was facing,” he told ArtReview in 2021. This exhibition presents two new series. Although Tosatti was initially invited to the museum for a retrospective, he believes these new works reflect his entire career. —Elena Clavarino