The seventh event in the «Global Aesthetics» cycle displays the works of Mr. Savethewall (stage name of Pierpaolo Perretta) in the Spazio Cielo of Villa Malpensata. The Italian artist presents 38 portraits of modern and contemporary artists and a self-portrait, all created with spray paint and stencils, a technique typical of street art reinterpreted here on canvas.

The title of the project, ELOGIA MMXXV, is an explicit reference to the Eulogies of Illustrious Men written in Latin between 1546 and 1551 by Paolo Giovio, a great humanist famous for his gallery of over 400 portraits of philosophers, writers, artists and powerful figures of the time, collected in his villa on Lake Como. Accompanied in his reflection on portraiture by the curators of MUSEC, Pierpaolo Perretta has decided to pay homage to the 38 paintings from the Giovio’s art gallery kept in the Civic Museums of Como, recreating in 2025 a personal gallery of portraits of artists chosen for their relevance in the development of his own artistic identity.

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