The exhibition space Buchmann Lugano presents the solo show entitled “Travel diary" by the artist Alex Dorici (Lugano, * 1979). If up to now Dorici's best known artistic language was represented by installations in dialogue with architecture and urban space, thanks to this exhibition we will be able to deepen a more intimate work of the artist who for the first time presents a series of figurative works . These are ceramic tiles made in different sizes from 2012 to today with the technique of grattage: the images thus created tell us about contemporaneity through a sort of travel diary, from which the title of the exhibition derives, thanks to the sometimes ironic, sometimes pungent gaze of the artist. Taking a cue from the salient facts of current history or from some famous masterpieces such as Picasso's Guernica or Leonardo's Last Supper, Dorici gives us his reading of the events analyzed by his critical eye. The artist's decision to present this new type of works certainly also coincides with the problematic time we are experiencing, in particular due to Covid 19 which has completely changed our way of living and relating and which is repeatedly represented in the works exposed. Alex Dorici has exhibited in many institutions in the Canton of Ticino including Casa Rusca in Locarno (2018), Museo Villa Pia in Porza, (2017), Limonaia, Villa Saroli, Lugano (2012). He has participated in several group exhibitions in Switzerland including: Biennale Bregaglia (2020), Triennale of contemporary sculpture of Bex (2020), Begegnungen (2019), Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhügel in Chur (2019). There are numerous permanent installations: NeuralRope # 1. Inside an Artificial Brain, created with Luca Gambardella at the Besso pedestrian tunnel, Lugano Stazione FFS (2019), Portugal al cubo # 729, Scuola Media di Caslano (2019), Installation Rope 300 meters Light, Torre del Capitano, Morcote (2016 ), Installation ROPE 250 light, Punto Città, Lugano-Pregassona (2015).   In 2018 he received the "Artist in Gallery" award of the ArteLaguna international contemporary art competition in Venice with relative exhibition in 2019 at the Fernando Santos Gallery in Porto while in 2014 the prestigious Bally’s Artist Award.