Paolo Tesi's Primitive Viscerality opens at POMA Liberatutti in Pescia

Primitive Viscerality, a major new exhibition dedicated to Italian artist Paolo Tesi, has opened at the Fondazione POMA Liberatutti in Pescia, where it will remain on view through May 24, 2026. The exhibition was inaugurated on February 26 in the presence of the artist, marking his seventieth exhibition and reaffirming his longstanding, independent path within Italian contemporary art. Born in Pistoia in 1945, Tesi has built a career that deliberately resists labels and fixed categories. Trained between Pistoia and Florence, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts while also attending the Faculty of Letters at the University of Florence, where literary figures such as Alessandro Parronchi and Luigi Baldacci influenced his intellectual development. Painter, printmaker and illustrator, Tesi has often described himself as a “painter with the temptation to write