Una curatela di Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager presso Galerie Lo Scalo – The marina—the realm of harbours, piers, and seaports—is a powerful theme for artists, symbolizing commerce, transition, and the threshold between land and journey. It captures the psychological tension between arrival and departure, offering rich contrasts between human-made structure and natural forces. It is intrinsically tied to ideas of human industry, global connection, and the melancholy of separation. Historically, the genre of the Marine Painting or vedute has been constant. Post-1950, artists continued to view the marina through new, often industrial, lenses. Gerhard Richter's early works, such as Sailing Boat (1969), often use the motif to explore blurring, memory, and abstraction. The renowned photo-realist Richard Estes captured the reflections and complex geometry of boats and harbour buildings in hyper-detailed paintings like in his series Voyages. A world-famous photographer who masterfully addressed this theme is Andreas Gursky. His large-scale, high-definition photographs, such as Salerno (1990), transform the sprawling, organized chaos of modern ports into vast, abstract compositions, speaking to global logistics and hyper-modernity. This collection explores the enduring allure of the waterfront as a site of both immense stillness and ceaseless human activity.