Alessandro Pessoli

Alessandro Pessoli

BornNationalityBased In
1961ItalianLos Angeles
Biography

Los Angeles-based artist Alessandro Pessoli is a cross-disciplinary artist who has gained international attention for his hauntingly expressive imagery, drawing from both his intimate, often subconscious, personal narrative and grander considerations for the media-saturated reality and the art historical framework that inform it. Utilizing a plethora of media, from brushwork and stencils to terracotta, Pessoli imbues his canvases and sculptures with a wealth of imagery, all connected by an emotional intensity. His chaotic compositions seem to be clumsily scattered collages, but upon closer inspection, exacting, photo realistic painting appears; he has a very delicate understanding of materiality. Pessoli’s works are rich in conflict - imbued with celebratory color yet strikingly dark in subject, featuring figures who are at once in ecstasy and in anguish, flippant and doomed - bopping in an inescapable, screwball universe. Pessoli’s recent body of work is ultimately celebratory, even if his characters are initially tormented by the state of a real and metaphysical world. Often playful guns and other weapons transform into sexual metaphors alongside fruit, and other symbols of life, nature, and innocence. With a nod to this child-like vision, Pessoli’s universe is doused in opulent color and iconography of popsicles, rainbows and butterflies. The obscure is juxtaposed with an enlightened and primal positivism. It’s the divergent emotive progressions of Pessoli’s narratives that keeps us submerged in his intricate, visual landscape. ...

Selected Artworks
Sentimento Illumina
Alessandro Pessoli
Sentimento Illumina, 2024
224 x 147cm
1963
Assunzione della figura
Alessandro Pessoli
Assunzione della figura, 2024
224 x 148cm
Deposizione fiorita
Alessandro Pessoli
Deposizione fiorita, 2024
76 x 56cm
Love and Death (dreamer)
Alessandro Pessoli
Love and Death (dreamer), 2024
224 x 244cm
My House - la mia casa #1
Alessandro Pessoli
My House - la mia casa #1, 2024
224 x 147cm
14 11 1963
Figura del cardellino
Alessandro Pessoli
Figura del cardellino, 2023
172.7 x 104.1cm
Gallery Representation
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