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Is painting a dying language whose only significance lies in its legacy? Or does it still present artists with an opportunity for invention?
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A notice greets visitors upon arrival at Anton Kern Gallery, where Alessandro Pessoli’s solo exhibition Fired People is now on view
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Alessandro Pessoli is largely known as a painter, and a figurative painter at that. But the artist has long worked in three dimensions, his singular aesthetic and haunting subjects extending
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Born in 1963 in Cervica, Italy, Alessandro Pessoli lives and works in Milan. Pessoli uses a variety of media, including painting, video and sculpture. His works often suggest elaborate narratives, punctuated by a number of art historical references ranging from Goya to Daumier. Comical, sinister, melancholic and grotesque, Pessoli’s characters appear riddled with existential anxiety. Combined with the fluidity of enamel on canvas, Pessoli’s dynamic touch exacerbates the works' nightmarish depiction of reality, outlining in crude strokes the set of tragic Balzacian dramas.
Alessandro Pessoli has recently presented solo exhibitions at Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017) MAN Museo d'arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia (2016), at Palazzo della Triennale of Milano, Milan, Italy (through 2016), at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Montecarlo, Monaco, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2011) along importat shows at MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2009), Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2009), Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2008), Studio Guenzani, Milan (2008) and Greengrassi, London (2007). His work has also been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions including “Making Worlds”, the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009), the XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Rome (2009), “RAW - Among the ruins” Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (2007), “Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection” at Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, (2007) and “E-flux video rental” at KW Berlin, Berlin and traveling to The Moore Space, Miami, Portikus, Frankfort, Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, Arthouse, Austin, Texas, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA and the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2004-8).
Alessandro Pessoli is represented by Studio Guenzani, Milan, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Greengrassi, London, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
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