Alessandro Pagani

Alessandro Pagani

is born in Milano in 1973.

"...With a rapacious look, Pagani systematically incorporates visual material which defines and conserves the beauty of historic, aesthetic periods. He has an affinity with these periods and archives them in an orderly way on their own mental shelves. He is
influenced by several cultural niches, by a power of magic, a power of penetrating beauty. We are always talking about secondary areas, interstices, residual areas, which the artist experiences a flavour for, and transforms them into sensations. Through these marginal spaces, authentic sliding doors to a stupefying ultra-reality, Pagani transports himself to distant locations, like a fugitive, or opium smoker (open the doors). For secondary types, like Blaxploitation, boxing, the cinema of the 1970s, the B grade movies, he explores the ravines of a lateral culture, emerging himself into an often hallucinatory bath … His paintings are traditional or classic. However in more recent works, a new element disrupts this formal equilibrium, generating a new rhythm, in composition and significance. The identity of the depicted characters which are well defined in the title of the works, like the grey composure of the
depicted scenes (or ra...

Academic degree of Scenography at Brera Academy (Milano)

2026
Xilomonsters - Nuovo Spazio di Casso
(PN) - a cura di Gianluca D'Incà Levis


2025
Detriti/Frammenti/Schegge/Brecce - Nuovo Spazio di Casso
(PN) - a cura di Gianluca D'Incà Levis

2024
Le fogge delle rocce - Nuovo Spazio di Casso (PN) - a cura di Gianluca D'Incà Levis

Gemmazione - Ex Villaggio Eni, Corte di Cadore (BL)
2023
Pulsar - Ex Villaggio Eni, Corte di Cadore (BL)

2022
Who killed Bambi? - Nuovo Spazio di Casso (PN) - a cura di Gianluca D'Incà Levis

Tromamotel - Ex Villaggio Eni, Corte di Cadore (BL)

2021
Studiolimpico - Ex Villaggio Eni, Corte di Cadore (BL)

2019
Openstudio Progettoborca - Ex Villaggio Eni, Corte di Cadore (BL)
Altri dardi - Forte di Monte Ricco, Pieve di Cadore (BL)

2017
Papi in soggettiva - Palazzo della Triennale, Milano

2016
Il gioco oscuro dell'altro - Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora (Sv)

2014
Portraits' warehouse - Mimumo, Monza (Mb)

2013
Roccedimenti - Nuovo Spazio di Casso (Pn)

2012
Das Unheimliche - Loft Gallery, Corigliano Calabro (Cs)
Nature violente - Teatro Delfino, Zuccarello (Sv)

2011
Whitexmas - Whitelabs, Milano
Art Verona (DC - Independents), Verona
DC (Dolomiti Contemporanee) - Sass Muss, Sospirolo (BL)
Combat Prize - Palazzo Bottini Dell'Olio, Livorno
Once upon a ti...