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
2022 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