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By juxtaposing the works of the two artists, it becomes clear how there is a Bolognese tradition that, as Antonio Grulli writes in the critical text accompanying the exhibition, “over the centuries, it is as if painting in Bologna had evolved in a particular direction, i.e., becoming a surgical instrument of the metaphysical analysis of reality that – starting empirically from the skin and body of things – manages to reach the soul.
In the case of Piero Manai and Alessandro Pessoli (Pessoli studied at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts during the last years of Manai’s life and held his first …