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ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Photography courtesy of Salvatore Pellegrino

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My adventure as a painter started in 2007 in Italy. Arnaldo Romani Brizzi, one of

the most influent gallery owner and curator in Rome, gave me trust and decided

to show an exhibition of some of my first works at “Il Polittico” Gallery. At that time

my work was influenced by iper-realism with a look that was intimistic and orfic

at the same time. By then I’ve been constantly involved into a reflection on the

Subject in its aesthetic form but also as a projection of different qualities. I have

always been interested in the history of intimate changing and revolutioning of

human being that’s the subject his own existence, in a psychological perspective,

but that’s also an historical object, from a political point of view. When I look

back at classical masterpiece of the history of arts I realize that past is in some

way present and affect my paint. I love Rembrandt’s matericity, Bacon’ sublime

dynamism, Vermeer with for his magic and rarefied world. When New Yorker

gallery RJD declared its interest on my work I was focusing the paradoxal depth

of the vision in the media landscape, that’s in my opinion a great paradigma of

the actual transformation of human existence. Now I’m trying to make characters

interact with environment with different rules, different time and space, different

gravity laws. That’s what has been showed at the Teodora gallery in Paris where

I’ve been honored of a solo show, last year.

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SALVATORE ALESSI

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‘Hourglass’ Oil on canvas

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‘Hourglass, Upside Down’ Oil on canvas

‘Hourglass, Sottosopra’ Oil on canvas

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‘Ecce Broker’ Oil on canvas

‘Nothing is as it seems’ Oil on canvas

‘Persistent Traces’ Oil on canvas

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‘Flesh thrown’ Oil on canvas

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‘Flesh thrown 2’ Oil on canvas

‘Mind Blown’ Oil on canvas‘High Intensity’ Oil on canvas

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‘Walking Energy’ Oil on canvas

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