MACHAS

Art in Transit: Jonathan Calugi’s Lines of Change for Fineco in Milan’s Underground

Machas Artist Jonathan Calugi brings his joyful one-line universe to the heart of Milan with Lines of Change, a year-long artistic collaboration with Fineco, currently centred on Galleria Santa Radegonda and soon to be extended to selected Milan metro cars.

Calugi has collaborated with banking and financial platform Fineco to create a site-specific intervention at Galleria Santa Radegonda in Milan, turning one of the city’s most active points of passage into an open meeting point between art and the public.

As part of Fineco’s institutional campaign Change is Good, the project draws on Calugi’s visual language: continuous lines, essential figures and fluid connections between people, gestures, objects and abstract forms. His work has long explored the expressive potential of a single line, treating simplicity not as reduction but as a means to open up multiple stories within the same image.

In Lines of Change, faces, figures and everyday moments emerge within a seamless visual world where all elements appear linked but remain open to different interpretations. Calugi’s art does not depict change as a sudden or dramatic event; instead, it presents it as a natural part of daily life: a movement, a crossing, a shift in viewpoint, or a moment of encounter.

Situated beneath Milan’s Duomo square and connecting the busy central area to its underground station, Galleria Santa Radegonda provides an ideal environment for the project. It is a constantly traversed space — used by commuters, locals, workers, students and visitors — each with their own pace and point of view. Within this open setting, Calugi’s art encourages passers-by to pause, even momentarily, outside the usual flow of transit and engage in a more personal, imaginative experience.

The wider activation is also set to include selected Milan metro cars, extending the project beyond the gallery and enabling the artwork to travel across the city over the course of the year.

“The gallery and the metro are spaces made of movement, encounters and different directions — every person crosses them with their own rhythm, their own starting point and their own trajectory. From this came the idea of creating a world that can be read from many perspectives, like a continuous line that changes as it accompanies us through our movements.”

Discover more of Jonathan Calugi’s work here.