Alessandro Pessoli is an interdisciplinary artist who has gained international acclaim for his highly expressive imagination, drawing on his inner, often unconscious personal narratives, but also on wider-ranging considerations on the state of contemporary visual culture and art history. Using a variety of media, from painting to drawing, stencils to terracotta, Pessoli charges his canvases and sculptures with a remarkable wealth of images, all connected by great emotional intensity. His apparently chaotic compositions, upon closer analysis, reveal their craftsmanship, at times bordering on photorealism. Through the use of a palette that ranges from bright to dreamier colors, his works strike a balance between the amusing and the grotesque, opening up ironic and almost savage reflections on the contemporary world. 

The latest body of works by Pessoli has a celebratory tone, in spite of the fact that the figures represented transmit, at first glance, a sense of torment between the real and the metaphysical. Through a metaphorical and symbolic approach that hints at a childlike vision at times, Pessoli’s universe is permeated by opulent colors, mixing elements and imagery of different origins, often distant from one another. The diverging emotional progressions of the artist’s narratives keep us immersed in his intricate visual landscape. With regard to the themes dealt with, we notice how he always falls back on the great existential – we might say biblical – issues: life, death, desire, sex, joy, sadness, hope, fear, and all the whys they entail.