I Ritratti Perduti / The Lost Portraits – 1990 – 2025

The exhibition 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.