First U.S. exhibition for Simone Pellegrini: Turning Point in New York.

The first American solo exhibition of Italian artist Simone Pellegrini (Ancona, 1972) will be held in New York: titled Turning Point, the show will be held at Cavin Morris Gallery from April 2 to May 7, 2022. The gallery has been working with contemporary artists from around the world for nearly four decades, and specializes in unconventional research and practices. The collaboration with Simone Pellegrini began in 2020, and after his participation in SOFA Chicago Art Fair 2020 and OAF New York 2021, and as an artist in the group exhibition Phoenix: New Artists and New Works, evolves into a focus devoted to nine large-scale papers, produced in the past decade.

Pellegrini’s works, seemingly simple but deeply complex, “are a dialogue between secrecy and mystery,” reads the gallery’s presentation. “At first glance one can see them as arenas of secrecy, but there is a difference between secrecy and mystery that plays with and changes our perceptions. Secrecy implies the possibility of empirical explanations if only the facts could be revealed. Secrets have deliberately hidden sources and answers. Secrets can be solipsistic. Mysteries remain poetic, sensual and eternally tortuous. For whatever reason, the answers to mysteries remain sensual and forever implied, and rarely, if ever, show themselves. Simone Pellegrini’s drawings allude to secrets, postmodern accumulations and augmentations of historical, mythical, talismanic and cultural images, but in reality they are mysterious, as if the artist has freed himself in time, improvising and sampling images like a DJ from a constantly moving stream of consciousness. He is improvising in such a way that the visual narrative moves and travels, constantly changing form as it moves from his restless hand to our receptive eyes. Making a carefully narrated vision appear spontaneous and eternal yet immediate is no easy feat.”

Pellegrini, on his papers, gives form to a theory of thought forms but also animal, mineral, and plant forms, allowing them to merge by juxtaposition into anorganic architecture of the universe without ever completely losing their old identities(more on the artist here). Individually, each drawing is complete, and grouped together they create a broad vision made cohesive by the artist’s careful editing and blending. They are a kind of free jazz solo using ancient and contemporary voices. The nine large drawings that go on display at Cavin Morris will never be the same twice and can be understood more fully by suspending disbelief and the need for linear answers.

Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona in 1972. He lives and works in Bologna, where he teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and his studio is based. His career as an artist began in 1996, during his formative years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino from which he graduated in 2000. A long season of successive exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, and international fairs began in 2003 with the solo show Rovi da far calce. He has exhibited in Italy in institutions such as Museo di Palazzo Pretorio Prato, Parco Archeologico Pompei, Villa d’Este Tivoli, MAMbo Bologna, CIAC Genazzano, Museo della Permanente Milan, Museo della città and FAR-Fabbrica Arte Rimini, Casa natale di Raffaello Urbino and Fondazione l’Arca Teramo, Palazzo Magnani and Collezione Maramotti Reggio Emilia, Villa Reale Monza, MAC-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Lissone, participating in three editions of the Venice Biennale among the artists of the Italian Pavilion and collateral events. Abroad, in museums such as Pablo Picasso Münster or Stadtgalerie Kiel in Germany, National Gallery of Arts Tirana in Albania, Mact/Cact Bellinzona in Switzerland. His works belong to the Collection of Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Gibellina; Premio Lissone Collection of MAC-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia; Permanent Collection Bologna Fiere, Bologna; UniCredit Art Collection, Milan; Gabriele Mazzotta Collection, Milan; Volker Feierabend Collection, Frankfurt am Main; Hanck Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; MUSA civica raccolta del disegno, Salò; Palazzo Forti, Verona; Reggio Emilia Province Collection; Musei Civici, Monza.

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First U.S. exhibition for Simone Pellegrini: Turning Point in New York.

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