21 May - 2 Jul

Beginning with The Adventures of Pinocchio, Alessandro Del Pero reimagines the fable as a reflection on desire, identity, and the human need to become “real.”

Within immersive spaces shaped by dramatic light and theatrical atmospheres, hybrid figures — part human, part animal — inhabit a suspended psychological landscape where authenticity and performance constantly overlap. Pinocchio, the Fox and the Cat, Geppetto, and the Blue Fairy emerge not as characters, but as contemporary archetypes: figures of projection, manipulation, longing, and transformation.

Throughout the exhibition, light becomes a central symbolic presence. For Del Pero, the Talking Cricket is no longer represented as a figure, but as light itself: a silent and persistent form of consciousness. In several works, an intense luminous presence appears alone within the space, functioning as an inner voice, a moral tension, or a moment of revelation.

The title, “The Blue Fairy Syndrome”, refers to the persistent desire to seek redemption, completion, or recognition through another. Rather than retelling the story, the exhibition explores the fragile mechanisms through which identity is constructed — through fiction, desire, illusion, and the gaze of others.

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