Chiaroscuro Arte Contemporanea at Studio Celestino is hosting a collection of paintings that restore voice and memory to unexplored artists.
From October 16 to 24, 2026, Studio Celestino presents *Immagini ritrovate #1. Giorgio Pelloni*, the inaugural event of a project curated by Francesca Longo and Ottavio Celestino, featuring an exhibition text by Lucilla Meloni. The collaboration between Chiaroscuro Arte Contemporanea and Studio Celestino aims to bring artists, stories, and places that have remained on the fringes of mainstream art narratives back into the public eye.
The project begins with Giorgio Pelloni, an artist whose unique body of work has evolved over more than thirty years across painting, photography, cinema, television, and documentary filmmaking. These diverse mediums serve as complementary tools in his practice for observing, documenting, and interpreting reality.
At the heart of the exhibition lies the relationship between photography and painting: photography viewed as a document, a record of memory, and a means of understanding, yet also as raw material for reinterpretation; painting viewed as a space capable of absorbing images, fragments, and impressions of reality and transforming them into a new form. Alongside the artworks, the project presents photographs, documents, archival materials, and personal accounts, reconstructing the artist's life story and the contexts in which his work developed.
The exhibition presents a selection of his paintings to the public for the first time, featuring works created primarily from the 1980s to the present. His painting stems from an intimate, almost diary-like realm, developing a universe in which the human figure serves as the central narrative element. It is a body of work that reflects on the human condition—on solitude, violence, and the memory of the twentieth century—while also contemplating the possibility of a different outcome. This tension between disintegration and possibility, memory and transformation, defines the exhibition’s trajectory: the story of a suffering humanity that remains capable, even amidst crisis, of recognizing what might give rise to a future.
*Immagini ritrovate #1* (Rediscovered Images #1). With this, Giorgio Pelloni launches a series dedicated to artists ripe for rediscovery, driven by the conviction that broadening our perspective on art history also means reclaiming experiences, places, and memories that can interrogate the present.