Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972. He lives and works in Bologna, where he teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and where his studio is located. His career as an artist began in 1996 during his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, where he graduated in 2000. Since 2003 to date he has held more than forty solo exhibitions; the most recents in museums and galleries in New York, Mùˆnster, Lugano and Salzburg. Simone Pellegrini's work, created entirely on paper, evokes landscapes, cosmogonies and cartographies that recall ancient, mystical and pagan iconography. His is a work of excavation in the collective and unconscious memory. The technical process seems to respect laws and rituals that he has given himself over the years, a few shades of primary colours, the monotype with matrixes created by the artist, used only once and then destroyed. Each work is unrepeatable, unique. His artworks belong to international public and private collections; among other publications, in 2016 he has created for the French publisher Fata Morgana the artist’s book Dans la chambre du silence.