Alessandro Pongan's Totem: A Multisensory Journey

Alessandro Pongan, born in 1963 in La Spezia, presents 'Totem', a successful attempt to reproduce the search for infinity within the human soul. Starting from signs resembling prehistoric graffiti that come to life in iconic motifs of the collective imagination, such as 'Prono' and 'Brain Drain', Pongan creates five material pathways for fruition: precious sculptures with metals and resins, immersive three-dimensional digital works, projections, wood engravings with plaster, and fabric tapestries. The result is a mapping of images that tell the invisible and the unsaid, an inhabitable and open work, familiar yet disturbing. This is especially evident when 'Prono' takes on the semblance of almost divine creatures in sculptures or an alienating building, or when the sculpture of a large geometrized brain is projected, becoming a stylized labyrinth in incessant physical and mental metamorphosis, where one can lose or find oneself.