Pellicanò’s paintings inhabit chimerical worlds that serve as metaphors for human experience and emotion. His enigmatic environments revive and reinterpret different imageri, from symbolism of the middle ages, pagan motifs and rituals, to oniric abstractions. Caught in misty backdrops and tangled in impossible ways, infants and hybrid creatures, imps and fauns populate many of his scenes. Instead of deliberately situating each visual and historical reference, Pellicanò’s appropriations seek to communicate something universal around the symbol as a catalyst for introspection.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Fear Fear, Fear Sky, Play Fear, Fear Work
Emanuela Campoli, Paris
2023
Repair is the Dream,
Emanuela Campoli, Paris
2023
OltrePanico!
Sentiment, Zurich
2022
WHIMS
Cafè Des Glaces, Tonnerre
2018
Shedding all the dead wood
Solo show at Fondazione Pini, Milan
ART FAIRS
2024
Art Basel Main Fair, Basel
Booth L18
Emanuela Campoli Gallery
PUBLICATIONS
Artforum #63-10 – Summer 2025, article by Lillian Davies
Flash Art Italy, 362 AUTUMN 2023, article by Giorgio di Domenico
Alei Journal Issue #11, November 2023, Interview by Indira Béraud
Lemaniana Exhibition Catalogue, Centre ‘Art Contemporain de Geneve, 2021, edited by Motto Books
Artribune Magazine #64, Studio Visit with Saverio Verini
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021
Silver Screen
Harkawik Gallery, Los Angeles
2021
Weary Friends
13 Vitrine, Renens
2021
LEMANIANA; Reflets et autres scenes, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve,
2020
TRANSATLANTICO, MANA Contemporary, , New Jersey, USA
2019
A healthy dose of confusion before the Bang, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milano
2018
Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza (BZ), Curated by Christian Jankowski
Curator and artist of the italian pavillion
RESIDENCIES
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, June 2020
Cafè Des Glaces, FRAC Bourgogne, September / October 2022
EDUCATION
MFA diploma from ECAL department of Visua Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022
Bachelor Diploma in Painting and Visual Art, at NABA, Milan, 2017
Contact:
leonardo.pllcn@gmail.com