Alessandro Scarabello was born in Rome (IT) in 1979. He is based in Florence and works in Rome, Florence and Brussels. 

Alessandro Scarabello's artistic practice revolves around a continuous analysis of painting, focusing on gesture and the process of painting itself. His work is characterized by a blend of figuration and abstraction, with a strong emphasis on exploring the boundaries between the two. Scarabello's main themes include the exploration of expressive force through brushstrokes, the use of acid colors, and the creation of nervous system-like backgrounds that form the basis of his paintings.
He depicts subjects who react to societal pressures and conformity, conveying awkwardness, latent derailment, resistance and unprocessed emotions.

Among his solo and group shows: Restless Picture, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2024; Land In Land Out, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence 2024; Italian Painting Today, Triennale, Milan 2023; Repetition Kills, MEF-Museo Ettore Fico, Turin 2022; I Still Paint, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2020; Uppercrust, Palazzo della Corgna, Castiglione del Lago, 2019; Rendez Vous, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium-Musèe Old-Masters Museum, Brussels 2018. 

He has been invited to several biennial events, including: the Bienal del Fin del Mundo in South America; Biennial for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria, Egypt; the Biennial of Tunis, and the Biennale dei Giovani artisti di Monza.

In 2022 he won the Ettore & Ines Fico Prize for emerging artists.

STATEMENT

My work explores how social pressure and conformity affect the individual and the context. I use painting to examine the individual’s degree of resistance or acquiescence in dealing with unprocessed emotions while reality changes.
Dirty brush strokes, lines, backgrounds, and false planes are the traps and pitfalls that I place on the canvas to test the figure and understand to what extent it can transform, to avoid disappearing. 
The subjects I paint react or adapt to the pictorial circumstances I create, through slight shifts or pressures in their bodies and forms. Often, fingers, hands, arms, and other body parts act as countervailing forces to the emerging painted space that constantly reconfigures – just as reality itself. 
 
 

CV

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

SOLO SHOWS
2024  Restless Picture, The Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy
2022  Repetition Kills, curated by Andrea Busto, 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
2025  Intorno alla stella, Nashira Gallery, Milan, Italy 
      Ettore Fico, Dialoghi contemporanei Un’artista un museo una collezione,
      curated by Andrea Busto, MEF - Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
2024  Ettore Fico, Dialoghi contemporanei Un’artista un museo una collezione,
      curated by Andrea Busto, Fondazione MACC, Calasetta, Italy
      Cantieri Montelupo 2023/2024, curated by Christian Caliandro, Montelupo, Italy
2023  Land In Land Out, curated by Modo asbl with Francesca Sborgi, Uffizi Museum,
      Florence, Italy 
      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  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  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
      Final show, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
      Close up, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
      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
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
2010  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  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