Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972. He lives and works in Bologna, where he teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and where his studio is located. His career as an artist began in 1996, during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he graduated in 2000. In 2003, with his first solo show has begun a long season of successive exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, and international fairs. To date, he has held more than forty solo exhibitions; the most recents in New York, Münster, Lugano and Salzburg.
He has exhibited in Italy, in institutions such as Palazzo Magnani and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina, Palazzo dei Priori in Volterra, MAC-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Lissone, Villa Torlonia in San Mauro Pascoli, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio in Prato, Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, MAMbo in Bologna, CIAC in Genazzano, Museo della Permanente in Milan, Villa Reale in Monza, Museo della città and FAR-Fabbrica Arte in Rimini, Casa natale di Raffaello in Urbino e Fondazione l’Arca in Teramo, and at the Venice Biennale in collateral events. Abroad, in museums such as Gugging in Vienna, Pablo Picasso in Münster o Stadtgalerie in Kiel, National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, Mact/Cact in Bellinzona and at Messums Wiltshire in Salisbury and in a different private art spaces in London, Paris, Brussels and more.
His artworks belong to international public and private collections, such as Collezione Farnesina, Roma; Der Privatstiftung – Künstler aus Gugging, Vienna; Collection Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Gibellina; Collection Lissone Prize of MAC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; Collection Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Bologna Fiere, permanent collection, Bologna; Art Collection UniCredit, Milano; Collection Gabriele Mazzotta, Milano; Palazzo Forti, Verona; Musei Civici di Monza, Casa degli Umiliati, Monza; Archivio Biennale Disegno, Rimini; Collection Volker Feierabend, Frankfurt am Main; Collection Wolfgang Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.
Simone Pellegrini’s work evokes landscapes, cosmogonies and cartographies that recall ancient, mystical and pagan iconography. His is a work of excavation in the collective and unconscious memory. The technical process seems to respect laws and rituals that he has given himself over the years, a few shades of primary colours, the monotype with matrixes created by the artist, used only once and then destroyed. Each work is unrepeatable, unique.
He has created for the French publishing house Fata Morgana the artist’s book Dans la chambre du silence.
Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972. He lives and works in Bologna, where he teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and where his studio is located. His career as an artist began in 1996, during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he graduated in 2000. In 2003, with his first solo show has begun a long season of successive exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, and international fairs. To date, he has held more than forty solo exhibitions; the most recents in New York, Münster, Lugano and Salzburg.
He has exhibited in Italy, in institutions such as Palazzo Magnani and Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina, Palazzo dei Priori in Volterra, MAC-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Lissone, Villa Torlonia in San Mauro Pascoli, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio in Prato, Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, MAMbo in Bologna, CIAC in Genazzano, Museo della Permanente in Milan, Villa Reale in Monza, Museo della città and FAR-Fabbrica Arte in Rimini, Casa natale di Raffaello in Urbino e Fondazione l’Arca in Teramo, and at the Venice Biennale in collateral events. Abroad, in museums such as Gugging in Vienna, Pablo Picasso in Münster o Stadtgalerie in Kiel, National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, Mact/Cact in Bellinzona and at Messums Wiltshire in Salisbury and in a different private art spaces in London, Paris, Brussels and more.
His artworks belong to international public and private collections, such as Collezione Farnesina, Roma; Der Privatstiftung – Künstler aus Gugging, Vienna; Collection Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Gibellina; Collection Lissone Prize of MAC – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone; Collection Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Bologna Fiere, permanent collection, Bologna; Art Collection UniCredit, Milano; Collection Gabriele Mazzotta, Milano; Palazzo Forti, Verona; Musei Civici di Monza, Casa degli Umiliati, Monza; Archivio Biennale Disegno, Rimini; Collection Volker Feierabend, Frankfurt am Main; Collection Wolfgang Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.
Simone Pellegrini’s work evokes landscapes, cosmogonies and cartographies that recall ancient, mystical and pagan iconography. His is a work of excavation in the collective and unconscious memory. The technical process seems to respect laws and rituals that he has given himself over the years, a few shades of primary colours, the monotype with matrixes created by the artist, used only once and then destroyed. Each work is unrepeatable, unique.
He has created for the French publishing house Fata Morgana the artist’s book Dans la chambre du silence.
Simone Pellegrini (1972, Ancona, Italy) is a painter who lives and works in Bologna, where he also teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. His career began in 1996 during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he graduated in 2000. His first solo exhibition in 2003 opened a long sequence of shows in Italy and abroad, and to date he has held more than forty solo exhibitions, with recent presentations in New York, Münster, Lugano, and Salzburg. In summer 2023 an anthological exhibition dedicated to him opened in Lugano at MUSEC, the Museo delle Culture.
In Italy he has exhibited at institutions including Palazzo Magnani and the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, the Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina, Palazzo dei Priori in Volterra, MAC in Lissone, Villa Torlonia in San Mauro Pascoli, the Museo di Palazzo Pretorio in Prato, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, MAMbo in Bologna, CIAC in Genazzano, the Museo della Permanente in Milan, and Villa Reale in Monza. His work has also been shown internationally at Galerie Christian Berst in Paris and, more recently, at Gugging Gallery in Austria, and he has been featured in Raw Vision magazine and other European art periodicals.
Pellegrini’s work evokes landscapes, cosmogonies, and cartographies recalling ancient, mystical, and pagan iconography, an excavation into collective and unconscious memory. Each piece is a unique monoprint on parchment-like paper, made from matrices the artist creates and destroys after a single use, then hand-coloured with charcoal and distressed with oil to suggest age, following technical rituals he has developed for himself over the years. He created the artist’s book Dans la chambre du silence for the French publishing house Fata Morgana.