Alessandro Roma: La pelle del paesaggio

18 Apr-28 May 2026

Overview

Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix is pleased to announce 'La pelle del paesaggio' by Alessandro Roma. This solo exhibition features five large-format paintings that create a loosely immersive installation on the gallery’s ground floor, accompanied by a video performance that invites the audience into the artist’s personal universe.

About the exhibition:

The ground-floor installation forms a protective "cocoon" that may, unexpectedly, evoke a sense of trespassing into a private, forbidden world meant to be kept secret. Towering from the gallery’s irregular walls, these works envelop the viewer in an intimate, organic environment. This organic quality stems from the large, plant-like forms―figures that inhabit the canvas like oversized butterflies, reigning over an eerie, mostly nocturnal underworld. Roma refers to these paintings as "landscapes” which are effectively visualisations of his innermost psychological workings.

In the basement gallery, the artist debuts his video work, 'La pelle del paesaggio' (The Skin of the Landscape). In this experimental piece, Roma pushes his concept to the extreme, aligning his metaphysical universe with the physical natural world. Across five movements―Mountain, River, Tree, Sun, and Root―a performer animates the paintings of Roma’s intimate world, depicting the struggle and joy of existing as "part of the whole." Accompanied by the original music of Guillermo Lago for saxophone (Caroline Halleck) and choir ( Groupe Vocale Viriditas), the work takes on the allure of a chamber opera. It serves as a reminder that nature is the most grandiose theatre of all, and that the mind constantly assimilates the environments we inhabit.

Alessandro Roma (Milan, 1977)

Alessandro Roma’s research is characterised by a primarily pictorial approach, rooted in his academic training and early artistic practice. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan in 2001. Throughout his career, Roma has consistently focused on transforming imagery drawn from both lived experiences and literary sources into tangible forms accessible to the viewer. He describes these works as “inner landscapes,” visual expressions of imagination and memory.

In recent years, Roma has explored and adopted a variety of techniques, including casting, fabric printing, ceramics, and collage. Through these methods, he creates works composed of complex and layered structures that reflect the intricate workings of the human mind.

His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, including the Medieval Museum, Bologna (2024); Museum Ettore Fico, Turin (solo exhibition, 2023); the MIC International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza (solo exhibition, 2018), curated by I. Biolchini; Casa Museo Jorn, Albisola (2017), curated by L. Bochicchio; the Villa Croce Museum, Genoa (solo exhibition, 2016); and the Mart – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (solo exhibition, 2011).

Other recent selected solo exhibitions include: CAR, Bologna (2023); Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix (2020, 2017); Fondation Thalie, Brussels (2019), curated by Nathalie Guiot; z2o Sara Zanin, Rome (2018); Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London (2017), curated by Marina Dacci; Sobering, Paris (2014); MAC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone (2014); and Paradise Row, London (2013).