Art is a privileged approach to symbols; the materials it employs transcend their simple physical presence. Vettor Pisani makes the symbolic the primary obsession of his work. For more than twenty years he has undertaken a voyage through the symbolic, which has given his work a strongly individual and coherent itinerary, a complexity, and a multi-valence rarely found today.

This show had three interrelated works, all referring to the figure of the Virgin, a key motif in Pisani’s work. A working refrigerator, Signorina Frigidaire, 1991, contained some small devotional objects: a map of the world,