kaufmann repetto presents Un cuore semplice (A Simple Heart), a new solo exhibition by Pierpaolo Campanini, opening in Milan on April 15. The title draws from Gustave Flaubert’s short story of the same name—a tale of quiet devotion and of an imagination capable of transforming the most humble attachments into vision.

Campanini’s practice explores the limits and possibilities of painting, constructing images that hover between presence and apparition. His works emerge from assemblages of objects, models, and memories, which find their final form in the painted surface. In this new body of work, literary references intertwine with enigmatic figures: familiar and unexpected elements coexist within the same space, like fragments of an inner narrative.

Echoing the fate of Félicité and her parrot Loulou, the exhibition evokes a fragile, visionary devotion, where images and memories take on an almost symbolic weight. Painting becomes a site where reality and imagination converge, giving shape to silent presences suspended between irony, melancholy, and wonder.