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Overview
F.A.L. Cegani, studio portrait, courtesy of the artist.The reproducibility and immediacy of the religious icon in the digital era serve as a vehicle and metaphor for the religious figure's loss of value in modern times.
F.A.L. Cegani's most recent series of paintings is a distant observation into post-digital Christian religious iconography. This series reflects the artist's recent rediscovery of Christianity and Christian iconography. The reproducibility and immediacy of the religious icon in the digital era serve as a vehicle and metaphor for the religious figure's loss of value in modern times. They also immediately reference the post-digital Christian aesthetic, in which meme culture merges with classical iconography to reach a wider audience.
Famous phrases of saints and martyrs are clumsily photoshopped onto classical paintings or portrayals of those figures, reducing both the message and concept. This rapid availability, along with the lack of a larger context for these utterances, converts these philosophical pills into easily digestible social media material. Cegani reinterprets holy religious cards found in churches and merges them with saint card reinterpretations from the digital world. This gives physical space to an otherwise ethereal message that the digital world contains. As a result, we may concentrate more closely on the messages themselves, allowing us to devote the appropriate amount of time to examining both the meaning of those words and the irony of such depth depicted in media.
The majority may find the juxtaposition of digital and classical humorous or comical. Still, the transnationality of this aesthetic, as well as its success on digital platforms, validates it as a real phenomenon that is transforming our perception of the Christian aesthetic. The paintings' kitschy overtones and vivid highlights almost contradict with the classical iconography they depict; this glossy and plasticky quality complements the sarcasm underpinning this series of works.
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Works
Filippo A.L. Cegani Italian, b. 1993
Work in progress, 2026Acrylics on canvas50 x 40 cm
19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inCopyright The ArtistFurther images
Provenance
Artist's studio
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F.A.L. Cegani, studio portrait, courtesy of the artist.
EDUCATION
2019- BA, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
- Dario Ghibaudo’s personal assistant, Milan, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024- Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “You either cry here or there”
- Grove Gallery, London, UK, “Grazie|”
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “A Bolt Out of the Blue”
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2026
- Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, "Material Girl"
2025
- Plan X Gallery, Milan, Italy, duo exhibition with Riccardo di Caro, “The Sacred Enters Where It Is Allowed”
- Swivel Gallery, New York, U.S.A., “Ecstasy Protocol”
- Galerie Pact, Paris, France, “Be The Holy”
- Swivel Gallery, New York, U.S.A., “FEVER DREAM”
- The Untitled Void, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea “THE GROUP SHOW PART 02”
- Cova Gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, “Great Things/ Small Doses”
- L. A. Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA, “Expression”
- Plan X, Capri, Italy, “Hyper Reality”
- Better Go South Gallery, Berlin, Germany, “Hystory: Reloaded”
- Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, “Chromatic, Dynamic… Stress”, Palma de Mallorca Art Week
- Grove Gallery, London, UK, “Bite the Hand”, London’s Gallery Week
- IRL Gallery, New York, USA, “Fritto Misto”
- Better Go South Gallery, Berlin, Germany, “Fight Club”, Berlin’s Gallery Week
- Hasbrook Galleries, Milwaukee, USA, “Hyper Contemporaries”
- Candysnake Gallery, Milan, Italy, “Weird Matter”
- Safe Space, London, UK, “Friends With Benefits”
- Goodmother Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, “By Yourself With Everyone”
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “The Gifts of Lockdown”
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “Planning a Summer”
- Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, USA, “Blessing In Disguise”
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “Summer Show”
- Camberwell University, London, UK, Final Year Show
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “Pareidolia”
- Copeland Gallery, London, UK, Midyear Show
- Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK, “Figurative NOW”
- Gallery Golsa, Oslo, Norway, “Go It For Cheap”
- PT.2 Gallery, Oakland, USA, “Go It For Cheap”
- Camberwell University, London, UK, End of the Year Show
- CGP Gallery, London, UK, Camberwell University Group Show
2017
- Protein Studios, London, UK, “Mixer”
PARTICIPATION IN ART FAIRS
2024- CAN Art Fair (with Enari Gallery), Ibiza, Spain
- Barely Fair, Grove Gallery, Chicago, USA, group show
- Bologna’s Art Fair, Sof Art, Bologna, Italy, “…and the alpha, beta”, solo show
Exhibitions-
Material Girl
Filippo Cegani, Rachel Clancy, Thomas van Dun, Minyoung Kim, Robin Megannity, Irina Patrusheva, Lennart Rieder, Robin Speijer, Rebecca Storm, Camille Theodet, Tian Teng 16 January - 1 March 2026Material Girl brings together eleven contemporary artists whose works engage with materiality as an idea, examining how images evoke texture, excess, and desire, rather than relying on physical matter alone....Read more -
You either cry here or there
Filippo A.L. Cegani 20 April - 25 May 2024Enari Gallery is pleased to announce You either cry here or there , a solo exhibition by Filippo A. L. Cegani. Filippo A.L. Cegani's most recent series of paintings is...Read more
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