Maurizio Pellegrin
I Ritratti Perduti / The Lost Portraits – 1990–2025 presents a selection of works by Maurizio Pellegrin spanning nearly five decades, in which the portrait emerges as a recurring, fragmented, and often anonymous presence. Through an archival approach, the artist retrieves and reconfigures images, objects, and materials—including paintings, photographs, and installations—allowing the human figure to surface as a trace.
Displaced from traditional modes of representation, the portrait becomes an evocative device, reflecting on the tension between presence and absence, visibility and oblivion. In contrast to the contemporary culture of appearance, the works reclaim a poetic and collective dimension of identity, suspended between memory, anonymity, and the dissolution of the self.
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I Ritratti Perduti 1990 – 2025, installation view
Oxide Portraits (serie), 2024, disegni del 1919 e ossido su legno, misure variabili
Oxide Portraits #10, 1919 drawing and oxide on wood, 58×41 cm
Head 4 e Head 3, 2022, acrilico su legno, 25×20 cm
Mouths (serie), installation view
Mouths (series), 1992, acrylic on albumen print, 17×11 cm each
I Ritratti Perduti 1990 – 2025, installation view
The Gentleman, 2014, olio su tela del XIX secolo, filo, tessuto,104×64 cm
Japanese Time, 2022, plates and antique Japanese Edo-period (1603–1868), carved wood and ivory objects, 85×40 cm
Lo Spazio Terzo, Il Cristo, 2001, oil on panel and 16th-century canvas, 36×33 cm