IMPRESSIONE – The LEX Series

From March to April 2026 curators Dali Geralle and Davide Onish invited artists Boris Dewjatkin, Dima Ilko (both based in Berlin), Kenneth Letsoin and Martinus Papilaja (both raised in the Netherlands) to IMPRESSIONE, their 2nd volume of The LEX Series at Galleria Montegani in Milan, Italy.

“The LEX Series is an exhibition series aimed at building a solid interpretation of post-vandalism, a term coined by Stephen Burke. It is a continuous and progressive dialogue. What could be the intersection of vandalism in contemporary art? What is the current direction of graffiti within the artistic context?

For the second exhibition of The LEX Series we are presenting a reflection on abstraction with post-graffitism, an investigation into how the foundational elements of graffiti language are progressively stripped of their original meanings to become essential gestures and autonomous forms.

The practices of the four exhibiting artists, Martinus Papilaja, Kenneth Letsoin, Dima Ilko and Boris Dewjatkin, move within this shared territory, exploring in different ways the threshold between sign, matter and space.”

We did get our hands of some of the exhibition catalogues from Italy for you. Catch a copy before they are gone.

124 pages, 23,9 x 29,7 cm, first edition of 100, softcover with painted edges
Language: English/Italian
Release date: April 2026
Publisher: The LEX Series