[8] and Fondazione Venezia,[9] where he created the program Observatory for the Arts whose objective is to sustain cultural debate, to maintain the institutions' historical sites and overall to support life itself in Venice.

[2] His works are in major private and public collections worldwide where, as an omnivorous collector, he arranges found objects gathered during his travels around the world, akin to Venetian traders of the past.

He meticulously composes antique objects, dress patterns, musical instruments, threads, black and white photographs and other items according to an intricate, personal system of organization.

The incorporation of mostly black and white photography in Pellegrin’s work, along with video, began in the 1990s and continues to play an important role today.

[19] Maurizio Pellegrin at the age of 26, in 1982, started showing at the international Galleria Il Capricorno[20] in Venice, Italy where he had the chance to meet artists such as Keith Haring, James Brown and Donald Baechler.

[21] In the late 80s he moved to Rome[1] where his rigorously structured wall installations became widely known in Italy thanks to multiple exhibitions at Galleria Valentina Moncada,[22] Paolo Vitolo,[23] and Il Ponte Contemporanea.

Pellegrin further developed his interest for the challenges given by the space, pre-existing energies, and history creating site-specific works also in historical museums, churches, palaces, and gardens throughout the world.

[41][42] Isole reveals the influences that have informed Pellegrin’s work including photography and cinema, poetry and literature, architecture, and music.

[43] In Italy, Pellegrin has exhibited in other galleries among whom Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan;[44] Studio Tommaseo – Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste;[45] and Marignana Arte, Venice where in 2015 he showed Flying Trains, a large suspended installation where delicate curves of seemingly weightless railways generate a soft centrifugal force.