Ivo Soldini was born in Lugano in 1951. Soldini’s work fits into the sculpting tradition focused on both the representation of the human being and on the psychological investigation of man’s modern existence. In the first decade of his plastic activity, Soldini experimented with several figurative modes, alternating the naturalistic approach with more informal and expressionist stylistic methods. In the mid-1980s, his fundamental choice became more effectively evident: the human figure, rendered in its interior essence by means of the incisiveness of the gesture. In the 1990s, the human emotional potential implodes into enigmatic blocks of bodies. These cocoons of material, however, allow their internal tensions to transpire through the lively expressiveness of their surfaces, worn by a painful act of removal. Heads and the serial grouping of figures in a crowd (especially in bas-reliefs) are among the noteworthy main motifs of Soldini’s more recent work. His pictorial and graphical production is closely linked to his plastic work. The quick lines of ink, the nervous marks of the black drawings or the gestural expressiveness exhibited by his multi-color temperas of neoexpressionist inspiration draw from a same will to formalize the figure starting from an original chaos. The central subjects – the figure in isolation or in multiple encounters –, declined in a secular or sacred sense, are also common. The exhibition is a thorough example of Soldini’s approach, a journey through the creative and technical skill of the artist.