Collection: Lorenzo Alessandri

Lorenzo Alessandri was one of Italy's most distinctive visionary painters and the founder of Surfanta — a movement that developed its own symbolic language of enigmatic figures, hybrid beings, and dreamlike psychological landscapes at the intersection of Surrealism, esotericism, and Italian counter-cultural thought. Working across painting, illustration, and print, Alessandri produced a body of work that operated simultaneously within the fine art world and the broader visual culture of speculative and occult publishing during the late 1960s and beyond.

His illustrated work for publications such as Peter Kolosimo's Guida al Mondo dei Sogni (Edizioni Mediterranee, 1968) documents a moment when artists, writers, and publishers increasingly blurred the boundaries between literature, mysticism, and visual experimentation. While his paintings have attracted growing collector attention, his printed illustrations remain considerably rarer — objects that preserve the graphic dimension of his practice in a form that circulated beyond the gallery.

The materials gathered here are documents of that practice: illustrations, printed matter, and ephemera that carry Alessandri's visual language into a different register — one defined by reproduction, distribution, and the altered conditions of renewed encounter.