In June 2026, the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Veneto acquired nine of my graphic works, created for the Phantasmagoria Pacis exhibition. They are now part of the permanent collections of the Museo Nazionale Collezione Salce in Treviso.

These works are the result of years of ongoing research: how images do not reflect reality, but construct it. Phantasmagoria Pacis explored this mechanism through the superimposition of visual layers, controlled distortion, and the search for a tension between what appears and what is. It is not an illustration of a concept. It is the form itself that becomes the concept.
When a national institution decides to acquire a work, it is not purchasing an object. It is affirming that that research deserves to remain accessible, studyable, and part of the public visual memory. For an artist, that is no small thing.
The Museo Nazionale Collezione Salce is not a random choice. It's a space that has historically recognized the value of contemporary Italian research, capable of exploring visual practices that challenge the boundaries between disciplines. The fact that nine graphic works have entered the collection signifies that this challenge has been understood.
The value of a work is not measured by acquisitions or numbers, but by its ability to change the way the viewer sees the world. If these nine images can do that for even just one person who encounters them in the museum's rooms, then the work will have truly worked.
I continue to work on the same question: how to construct images that are critical, provocative, and capable of envisioning the future. This acquisition isn't the end, but rather confirmation that we're on the right path.

​Unusual materials are a hallmark of @damiano_fasso, one of the most original and eccentric artists on the contemporary scene.
This work, "Untitled," is a blend of extravagance and purity.
The rough, textured, almost embossed sheet of paper has been encapsulated in a plexiglass case.
The raw edge is clearly visible, and the painting's glossy acrylic enamels lend a postmodern dimension to the work.
Many have attempted to translate the ideograms, and just as many have noted the use of stitched thread as if suturing a wound.
The words "TUTTA LA SOLITUDE DEL MONDO" perhaps suggest the work's intention, perhaps not.
It is in this dimension of suspension and absence of an "invasive" meaning that Fasso's enigmatic research resides.
Using contemporaneity as a playground, partly digital and partly physical, Fasso creates a low-fi universe saturated with light and color, only seemingly uninhibited.
Text: Tiziana Sanzone

Work:
Untitled
Acrylics, thread, enamel on paper
41.3 x 54.5 cm
Unique piece

Big Eyes Art Gallery, Strada Maggiore 7/e, Bologna