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.

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Los Angeles

Thessaloniki Biennale

Thessaloníki

Venice Biennial

Venice

Cervia

New York City

Anton Kern Gallery

Munich

Sabine Knust

Nino Mier Gallery

Milan

Guenzani

Gladstone Gallery

Overduin & Co.

Genève

Galerie Analix

Paris

Air De Paris

London

Greengrassi

Brussels

Xavier Hufkens

ZERO…

Chisenhale Gallery

Rome

Palazzo Delle Esposizioni

Reggio nell'Emilia

Collezione Maramotti (Max Mara)

Dijon

Le Consortium

Prato

Centro Pecci

High Line

Chicago

Mca Chicago

Palazzo Grassi

Cambridge

Carpenter Center For The Visual Arts

Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

MoMA

San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Sfmoma)

Moca

Hammer Museum

Dallas

Dallas Museum of Art

Cindy and Howard Rachofsky Collection

Zabludowicz Collection

Nottingham

Nottingham Contemporary

The Drawing Center

Alessandro Pessoli

14 11 1963

My House - la mia casa #1

Love and Death (dreamer)

Deposizione fiorita

Assunzione della figura

1963

Sentimento Illumina