Alessandro Scarabello was born in Rome in 1979. He works between Rome, Florence and Brussels. In addition to his painting practice, he is co-founder and co-director of MODO, a cultural association for contemporary art  in Brussels, and lecturer at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Rome.

Statement

In recent years, my pictorial research has focused on gesture, evolving according to a practice made up of trial and error that transforms error into experiential possibility. It has evolved precisely in the awareness that the work of art can, at any moment, undergo unpredictable derailment. 

With these assumptions, I therefore stand in continuous conflict with the idea of method as a means of ensuring aesthetic control over the work, preferring instead its natural drift and, in fact, disallowing a hierarchical relationship between the work and the artist. 

From the very pronounced figuration of my early days, characterized by tonal painting and a brighter palette, I have gradually come to synthesize gesture through a process of formal and chromatic reduction in which color combinations, for example, are often reduced to two or three, or to a bright supporting color that contrasts with a palette of achromatic shades.

My works oscillate between figuration and abstraction by means of quick and essential brushstrokes, emphasizing either the human figure, or forms that play with the interpretation of symbol and archetype.

CV

2015 MFA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium
2004 BFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy

SOLO SHOWS
2022  Repetition Kills, MEF - Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
2020  I Still Paint, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2019  Uppercrust, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Palazzo della Corgna,    
      Castiglione del lago, Italy 
2016  The Garden of Phersu, The Gallery Apart,Rome, Italy      
2013  Uppercrust, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2010  Nous voulons, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2009  Alessandro Scarabello at Rialtosantambrogio, c/o The Gallery Apart, Rome, 
      Italy
      Inside3, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2006  Tre di Tre, Antica Fornace Laterizi, Serra de Conti (Ancona), Italy
2005  LifeinLines, Sala 1 c/o The Gallery Apart, Rome,Italy

GROUP SHOWS  
2023  Italian Painting Today, curated by Damiano Gulli, Triennale, Milan
      Ettore Fico, Dialoghi contemporanei Un’artista un museo una collezione,
      curated by Andrea Busto, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice            
2022  Eclettica!, curated by Andrea Busto, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
2021  Pittura Pittura Pittura, Marignana Gallery, Venice
2020  Refolded Percorsi meta-artistici, curated by Luiss Master of Art, 
      Pastificio Cerere, Rome 
2019  Phantasma, Francesca Antonini gallery, Rome, Italy
      Silenzioso, mi ritiro a dipingere un quadro, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, 
      Renata Fabbri gallery, Milano, Italy
      Graffiare il presente,curated by Daniele Capra, Casa Testori, Milano, 
      Italy
2018  L’Ora Blù, Yellow, Varese, Italy
      Rendez Vous, Hans Op De Beeck Alessandro Scarabello and Serena Fineschi, 
      Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Museeoldmastersmuseum, Brussels, 
      Belgium
      Rendez Vous, Hans Op De Beeck Alessandro Scarabello and Serena Fineschi, 
      Italian Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
2017  You can’t, c/o Yellow/Bouquet, Varese, Italy 
      Grand Hotel, Surplace, Varese, Italy
      Prix Mediatine, Cultural Center - Wolubilis Mediatine, Brussels, Belgium
2016  Grand Hotel, Temple University, Rome, Italy
2015  Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 
      Italy
      Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 
      Italy
      The Gentlemen, Cecilia Jaime gallery, Ghent, Belgium
      Final show, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
      Close up, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
      Spettro, KLAN Art Space, Ghent, Belgium
      What is your poison?, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
      Bienal del fin del mundo, 4th Edition, Mar Del Plata, Argentina; 
      Valparaiso, Chile; Punta Arenas, Chile; Ushuaia 
2014  Don't steal my moment, collaboration of KASK-School of Arts Ghent and 
      Kunstacademie Düsseldorf, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
      Art Revolution, Earth Sciences Museum, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
2013  Biennial of Monza for young artists, Villa Reale, Monza, Italy
      Tw(in)er, c/o Ex Elettrofonica gallery, Internazionali BNL Italia, Central 
      Stadium, Foro Italico, Rome, Italy
2012  Centro Periferia, Federculture, group show of the winners, Palazzo delle 
      Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
      Combat Prize, group show of the finalists, Museo Civico G. Fattori, 
      Leghorn, Italy
2011  GarageZero, GarageZero, Rome, Italy
2010  Slaves, Palladium Theater, Rome, Italy
      Impresa Pittura, curated by Raffaele Gavarro and Claudio Libero Pisano, 
      CIAC – International Center 
      for Contemporary Art, Genazzano (Rome) , Italy
      Image et Mirage, 6th Biennial of Tunis, Palais Khereddine, Tunis, Tunisia
2009  Aftermath, 25th Biennial for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria Art 
      Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
      Nuove Creatività del Mondo, Federculture, Italian Chamber of Deputies, 
      Rome, Italy
      Studiovisit, A review on works by Italian artists, SPACE Galeria Priestor 
      c/o 26cc, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008  Streams of consciousness, curated by Cecilia Casorati, Palazzo Grassi, 
      Chioggia (Venice),    
      Italy Experimenta – The Farnesina Collection, Italian Ministry of Foreign 
      Affairs, Rome, Italy
      Studiovisit, A review on works by Italian artists, 91mq Art Project Space 
      c/o 26cc, Berlin, Germany
      UP-ART, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2007  Confronti, Federculture, Rome, Italy
      Nuovi Pittori della Realtà, PAC – Contemporary Arts Pavilion, Milan, Italy
      Nuovi Realisimi, 58th edition of Premio Michetti, Michetti Foundation, 
      Francavilla al Mare, Italy
      Spazi Aperti 5, Academy of Romania, Rome, Italy
2006  Futuro/Presente – Nuove Creatività del Mondo, Federculture, Rome, Italy
2004  Architetture, Franco Maria Ricci Library, Milan, Italy
2003  Giovane Figurazione, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
2002  L’Aldilà nel mondo islamico e occidentale, Red Castle of Tripoli, Libya
2001  Visione intima, Linee della figurazione contemporanea, National Library of 
      Tripoli, Libya

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy 
Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, Minister for Foreign Affair, Rome, Italy 
Bocs Art Museum, Cosenza, Italy