Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.
Upside-down trees with roots reaching toward the cosmos, glasses, pitchers, transparent vessels, and bodies blending human and animal, male and female features populate Jacopo Pagin's works. These figures reveal themselves in their decadent and symmetrical being, caught within a web of references centered on the evocative power of the gaze.
The first monograph dedicated to Jacopo Pagin, co-published with Make Room and featuring a critical contribution by Alessandra Franetovich, brings together over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of the artist's work and its profound connections with exotic, mediumistic, and new-age practices.
Jacopo Pagin (born 1988 in Italy, lives and works in Brussels) pays homage to historical artistic techniques while presenting a contemporary perspective on everyday life and its mysteries. His practice includes painting, drawing, and mixed media installations. His work explores themes of time, nostalgia, and collective memory, focusing on the relationship between history and the present. He often uses mirrored imagery, reflections, and repetition to explore dualities—such as past versus present, control versus chaos, and memory versus perception. His work blurs the lines between the organic and the artificial, the visible and the invisible, inviting viewers to question the narratives of progress that have shaped contemporary society. Through layered historical references, transparency, and surreal elements, Pagin's practice critiques the illusion of a linear, controllable future and encourages deeper reflection on collective memories. His work invites viewers to reconsider the promises of modernity and engage with the complexities beneath the surface.
