The Sniper In The Brain is the first monograph on Italian artist Jacopo Pagin, co-published by Nero and Hollywood art gallery Make Room and featuring over 200 drawings and paintings. It's a heavyweight volume that delves into the artist’s visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic style, revealing deep connections to exotic, mediumistic and new-age practices.
Jacopo Pagin’s works are populated by upside-down trees with roots reaching toward the cosmos, transparent vessels, and hybrid bodies blending human, animal, male and female features. These figures appear decadent and symmetrical, woven into a web of references that highlight the evocative power of the gaze.
With a critical essay by Alessandra Franetovich.
Nero/Make Room, 272pp, 24cm x 30cm, illustrated paperback, 2024