|
Born
in New York in 1964 from Italian
parents, he studies in Italy, in
a limited provincial environment,
spending the summer in USA, a world
much richer in stimuli and loves.
During the long Italian winters,
spent in the school-home routine,
the only escape is his fantasy and
his pencil becomes the tool to achieve
his own dreams, thus approaching
himself to the world of Art which
will play such an important role
in his life. After he gets his Art
certificate of Secondary Education
in Taranto, he matriculates at the
Faculty of Architecture of "La
Sapienza" in Rome.
Rome, the pleasant synthesis between
the two different worlds of his
adolescence, is the magic place
of his very first apprenticeship
in the hard search of his self and
the reasons of his own art.
In his symbolist-figurative period,
his paintings, filled with white
geese swarming in squares, streets,
or lying lonely in wait, are symbols
of purity and ingenuousness, respect
and simplicity. The silent and astonished
geese, witnesses of the every day
life, represent the best and most
honest part of ourselves and are,
in a dream dimension, a projection
of purity and liberty, a reminiscence
of our lost `age of innocence´.
Once thid phase is concluded, Alex's
art gets nourishment and life from
his studies in architecture:his
still current
neo-cubist-figurative period starts.
The city architectures melt and
wrap the senses in a new magic,
with warm tones in a modern figurative
style,in which abstraction sofltly
takes shape in "wonderful metropolitan
enchantments".
Translated
by Paola Di Biagio |