LE CONFESSIONI DI CAGLIOSTRO.
Moleskine Foundation Collection Acquisition.

Le Confessioni di Cagliostro is a notebook contribution conceived to raise awareness around creativity as a tool for social change and to promote a culture of sharing and giving. The work is part of the Moleskine Foundation Collection, which includes notebooks created by different authors and thinkers and donated to the Foundation to support its activities.

Notebooks function, in this context, as spaces of freedom—places in which one “becomes” who one is, crossing pages like clearings where symbolic and imaginary rituals take place. The drawings emerge as a patient search for a source where colors, signs, ideas, and visions materialize as small cracks of playful freedom, momentarily escaping rational constraint.

These drawings are conceived as a gaze capable of penetrating thick and seemingly impregnable walls, such as those of the Rocca di San Leo, reaching the cell of Cagliostro. The notebook operates simultaneously as device, limit, and origin: a bounded space within which imagination, narrative, and visual thinking can unfold.

The Moleskine Foundation Collection reflects the diversity and complexity of contemporary creative thought through one of the most extensive collections of author notebooks of our time. It gathers contributions from artists, designers, architects, musicians, filmmakers, illustrators, intellectuals, and philosophers, whose notebooks often transform into artifacts far removed from their original function. The Foundation presents the collection at international art events, festivals, exhibitions, and biennales, both to give visibility to the authors and to support fundraising initiatives.

Expose - The project exposes the notebook as a cognitive and symbolic device, revealing creativity as a form of inner narration, visual thinking, and social imagination rather than a finalized product.