By: Peter Milton

Medium: Resist Ground Etching & Engraving    
Edition of 140
image size: 24 x 37 inches       
Year: 2006    

Peter Milton’s Hidden Cities: Continuum transforms the grandeur of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele into a layered meditation on architecture, memory, and the passage of time. The Galleria, with its soaring glass dome and ornate ironwork, represents one of the great 19th-century triumphs of urban design: a covered arcade that merges commerce, leisure, and spectacle. Milton seizes upon this iconic site not merely as a piece of architecture, but as a vessel of continuity — a place where history folds into itself, where the elegance of the past reverberates within the modern city.

True to Milton’s style, the work does not present the Galleria as a straightforward depiction. Instead, he dissolves and recombines its elements, multiplying arches, corridors, and facades so that the viewer is drawn into a shifting labyrinth.