A sequence of thoughtful, silent, profound glances constitute the crowded installation by Bruno Pellegrino, at the ADI Design Museum, from 27 November to 21 December 2023.

Conceived as a journey of thoughts and emotions, the exhibition presents sixty-three two-dimensional sculptures in painted iron and six large monochrome masks, depicting faces of strong expressive intensity and a multi-sensory and engaging projection of images. You feel observed, surrounded, accompanied, on a visual journey between faces, anonymous or familiar, real, evocative, imaginary glances.

With PERSONAE Pellegrino returns to explore one of the themes that most stimulate his artistic research, of the human in modernity: individuality and diversity, solitude and collectivity. Also questioning the relationship between reality and representation, between the synthesis of shapes and the abstraction of color.

This installation arises from reflection on Pellizza da Volpedo's masterful masterpiece, “Il Quarto Stato” (1901). The strength of individuals and a community on the move, in search of a new future of emancipation, rights and freedom. In search, today as yesterday, of a community of destiny. “PERSONAE: theatrical mask, individual of the human species, without distinction of sex, age, social condition, considered both as an element in itself and as part of a group or community.”