In Alessandro Casetti’s paintings, the human figure becomes a territory to traverse rather than to depict. Skin is never merely a surface: it is a fragile membrane, continually exposed to the pressures of the world. Faces emerge as apparitions carved out by drips, fractures and layers of material that destabilise their contours and amplify their symbolic resonance.
The drips are not aesthetic effects: they are signs of emotions overflowing, identities transforming and fragilities revealing themselves without defence. This is a profoundly contemporary painting that speaks of hypersensitivity, resistance and a humanity trying to remain whole while knowing it is vulnerable.
In his works, matter is not a medium but a living organism. Water-based enamels flow, thicken and crack: a language of craquelure that transforms skin into a map, an archive of tensions, memories, wounds and regeneration. The cracks are not flaws but openings through which truth may silently filter.
Sub Pelle is therefore a passage through. Not an exhibition simply to look at, but a place to inhabit with the gaze and the body. Skin becomes a story, a mask that cracks to reveal what pulses beneath. In this exhibition space, vulnerability becomes a meeting place: the works ask not for interpretation but for presence. These are surfaces that hold silence and turn it into form, that preserve emptiness and make it generative.
Sub Pelle does not tell a truth, but shows how truth reveals itself: slowly, through the smallest fissures. It is an invitation to look beyond the surface, to dwell in fragile places, to recognise that what truly defines us lives where the eye cannot reach.
