Simone Pellegrini is an Italian artist based in Bologna. His works have a visionary feel, like artefacts describing a forgotten system of beliefs. The works are unique, monoprints on a parchment-like paper, which Simone then hand-colours and distresses with oil to create a sense of age. Their graphic arrangements echo a medieval imagination, depicting Dantesque dreams of symbols and structures where groups of figures wander lost, consumed by its complexity. Cryptic and mystical, they tap into the experience of the intangible, seeming to spring from the parallel way of thinking of dreams and of the night. Simone Pellegrini's works are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, the Civic Museum in Monza, Volker Feierabend in Milan, and Bologna Fiere.
2002
Naibi, Ken’s Art Gallery, Firenze, Italy
Carte Barbare, Galleria L’Affiche, Milano, Italy
2000
Ken’s Art Gallery, Firenze, Italy
1997
Il Salasso, Atelier dell’Arco Amoroso, Ancona, Italy
Group shows (selection)
2017
Nocturne. Lucy Glendinning, Simone Pellegrini, Suzanne Moxhay, James Freeman Gallery, London, England
2016
L'arca dell'arte, Rocca Ubaldinesca, Sassocorvaro/Urbino, Italy
Come closer - experimenting with a Wunderkammer of vanities, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
2015
The trip, Hachmeister Gallery, Münster, Germany
Soit 10 ans, état enterieurs, Galerie Christian Berst art brut, Paris, France
Hotel Universo nella notte Transluminosa, Galleria Malepere Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
Italia Docet, Collateral Event of the 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2013
Nell'acqua capisco, collateral events of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2012
Aus Passion, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
VAF- exhibition Young Italian artists, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Donaueschingen and Milan or Rome
A long time ago, in a land far, far away, John Jones Exhibition, London, England
2011
54. Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Never talk to strangers, Edel Assanti Gallery, London, England
2010
Selvatico Spore. Uno, Pescherie della Rocca, Lugo di Ravenna, Italy
Crossover, Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
Pagine da un bestiario fantastico, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Quadrivio – il paesaggio svelato, Baricchi, Demetrio, Iori, Pellegrini, Bonioni Arte, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2009
Vegetando, Convento di Santa Caterina, Finalborgo (SV), Italy
Il Diavolo e l'Acquasanta, Palazzo Paolo V, Benevento, Italy
2008
Set Theory, Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
Qualcosa di personale, Palazzo della Borsa, Genova, Italy
Mengenlehre, Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
Generazioni a confronto, Officina delle Arti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2007
Corale, Palazzo Sforza, Comune di Cotignola, Italy
Drawings 1914 - 2007. From Ensor to Pellegrini, Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
L’intelligenza della mano. Disegni da Morandi a Kentridge Galleria Il Planetario, Trieste, Italy
Pena Corporale, Galleria Goethe2, Bolzano, Italy
Ritratto di un quadro, Galleria LIBRA artecontemporanea, Catania, Italy
Sine Die, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
2006
Fe-Male, Galleria L'Ariete, Bologna, Italy
Porte aperte, Galleria delle Battaglie, Brescia, Italy
Collezione Artan Shabani, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2005
Premio Pascucci, Monte Cerignone, Urbino, Italy
Cuori selvaggi, Fondazione di Ca’ la Ghironda, Zola Predosa (BO); Palazzo del Podestà, Rimini, Italy
Il Biennale Don Primo Mazzolari, Sala delle esposizioni, Bozzolo, Italy
Il ritorno inesistente, Chieri (TO), Italy
2003
Wulbari, Galleria En Plein Air contemporanea, Pinerolo (TO), Italy
Incidere, Rocca Malatestiana, Montefiore Conca (PU), Italy
Premio Lissone, Civica Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone, Italy
2002
In Viaggio / De ViaJe, im Rahmen von Big Torino 2002, Galleria En Plein Air artecontemporanea, Pinerolo (TO), Italy
Incidere, grafica d’arte dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino 1970-2002, Palazzo del Collegio Raffaello, Urbino (PU), Italy
Beyond The Edge, Rocca Malatestiana, Montefiore Conca (PU), Italy
18x24, Galleria 41 artecontemporanea, Torino, Italy
2001
Corporate Identity, Galleria En Plein Air artecontemporanea, Pinerolo (TO), Italy
In Natural Mente, Caerano S. Marco; Ken’s Art Gallery, Firenze, Italy
FigurAzione, Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, S. Sofia (FO), Italy
2000
Palazzo Marchesale Venusio, Turi (BA), Italy
Palazzo Ducale, Sale del Castellare, Urbino (PU), Italy
1998
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Palazzo Luccarini, Trevi (PG), Italy
1997
47. Rassegna Internazionale G.B. Salvi e Piccola Europa, Palazzo Oliva, Sassoferrato (AN), Italy
Collettiva di Arte Contemporanea, Rocca Ubaldinesca, Sassocorvaro (PU), Italy
1996
Architetture del Cielo, Conventino Servi di Maria, Monteciccardo (PU), Italy
Arte Viva, VIII Festival Europeo, Senigallia (AN), Italy