Alessandro Pessoli

The publication Testa Cristiana is the outcome of the project of the same name specifically conceived by the artist for the spaces of the Cloisters of Sant'Eustorgio and the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan, where all these issues are traceable in existing works and new productions created for the exhibition. Offering an intimate path that conveys Pessoli's idea of sacredness, the show is a site-specific dialogue with the architecture and the relics preserved in the building, reflecting his conception of the sacred as confronted with contemporary life, which demands us to coexist with pain and uncertainty.0The volume aims to articulate this approach through a rich selection of installation views and a dedicated section where the exhibited works are graphically treated as "icons." It features a text by writer and curator Alexis Vaillant on Pessoli's oeuvre, with a particular focus on his chimeric figurative vocabulary, and an essay by curator Eva Fabbris, investigating the sense of the sacred through the artist's practice. In addition, a conversation between Alessandro Pessoli and the Italian artist Pierpaolo Campanini reflects on the possible degree of spirituality in their artistic research. 00Exhibition: Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum, Milan, Italy (15.09. - 12.12.2021).