Bellinzona Secret Garden
At night, torch in hand, Yuri Catania enters the gardens and lets the light choose one flower at a time. This is how the new series of Black Flowers Secret Garden was born: the flowers of the Parco di Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona and of the garden of CasaGalleria in Rovio, photographed in the dark and then brought back to the city, on the Visconti stairway in Bellinzona, as a participatory street-art work.
September at the Gallery
Among the garden's flowers and the Astronaut Women: an experience worth collecting.
In September, the CasaGalleria garden in Rovio, at the foot of Monte Generoso, is transformed. The dahlias are in full bloom: giant yellow flower heads mingle with pink, orange and pure white pompons.
Yuri Catania's works come to life in this vision full of colour. The artist portrays the garden's flowers and merges them with his astronaut women, on an artistic journey that explores the intimate bond between humankind, the universe and the environment around us.
View the works online, or come and see them in person.
Yuri Catania, Moon Flower Generoso Mission II, 2026
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Yuri Catania
Born in Milan, Italy, in 1975. He has lived and worked in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, since 2013.
Visual artist.
His practice explores the moon, astronauts and nature, in works born where dream meets everyday reality. Every piece, from photography to sculpture, is created and produced by hand in his atelier.
Today's Flower
Yuri Catania, October 10, 2025
"One flower a day as the smallest unit of cultivated beauty."
A Day of Flowers by Yuri Catania
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The Collections
Art
Yuri in Wonderland
A Day of Flowers
Photography
My Generoso
Black Flowers Secret Garden
The workshop
The atelier
An old house in the heart of Rovio, a short distance from Lugano, in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
This is where Yuri Catania brings his works to life, moving freely between photography, painting and sculpture. A creative refuge where the boundaries between inside and outside dissolve: in this magical space, each work is dreamed, shaped by hand and finally shown to the public.
The garden
Nature as a creative matrix
Embraced by the slopes of Monte Generoso, the garden frames CasaGalleria as a natural extension of the atelier. Here Silvia, Yuri's creative accomplice and life partner, lovingly tends the flowers and dahlias that will later blossom in the artist's paintings.
This is the wellspring of inspiration, the origin of everything. An intimate dialogue between the daily work of hands in the soil and the force of nature, holding within it the very soul and signature of Yuri Catania.
About us
Silvia and Yuri
An intimate home and atelier at the foot of Monte Generoso, where art is part of everyday life, in deep connection with nature.
Here, Silvia Torricelli and Yuri Catania do more than create and exhibit: they open the doors to their world, welcoming art lovers and collectors to share an authentic way of life devoted to beauty.
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The garden, the atelier and the works are best experienced in person, by appointment.