Alessandro Gambetti's Artist Profile
Alessandro Gambetti
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Visionary Alessandro Gambetti with visionary, brings to scene a doubled humanity in a series of paintings elaborated at the computer: an original and unusual mix that has the rare capacity of harmonically melting the fluidity and the pictorial heat with the rigidity, the coldness of the computer. Like modern sacred statues, bits of human figures emerge from the canvas in a perfect optical and illusionistic game and with a hint of that renders the bodies real and throbbing, that gives respiration at times so much so as,to make, similar these nudes to icons of a lay santctit all contemporary, a modern statue or nike of every day life. The authentic interpretation of Gambetti is influenced by the recent discovery of the language of the computer graphic, so much so as to render his work true and proper “digital photo picture”, “graphic re elaboration” that slide from the figurative to the abtract, from the allegory to the icon deformation, combining renaissance reccollections with contemporaneous languages that much is owed to Escher, Dalì, Ernst, Magritte and Warhol, in a roundup of revised snapshots with great freedom. It is the same Franco Campoli who maintains that “the artist loves to entrust to revise graphically, subjects already belongings to his cultural group, accomplishing a series of work that represent the human figure, that, trough the study of visual perception, have the main particularity of being seen in three dimensions, like a stereogram” that is a two dimensional image capable of arriving at a three dimensional vision of the said, thanks to a sequence repeated several times and taking advantage of the binocular mechanism of man. Martina Marolda
Artist's Statement
Visionary Alessandro Gambetti with visionary, brings to scene a doubled humanity in a series of paintings elaborated at the computer: an original and unusual mix that has the rare capacity of harmonically melting the fluidity and the pictorial heat with the rigidity, the coldness of the computer. Like modern sacred statues, bits of human figures emerge from the canvas in a perfect optical and illusionistic game and with a hint of that renders the bodies real and throbbing, that gives respiration at times so much so as,to make, similar these nudes to icons of a lay santctit all contemporary, a modern statue or nike of every day life. The authentic interpretation of Gambetti is influenced by the recent discovery of the language of the computer graphic, so much so as to render his work true and proper “digital photo picture”, “graphic re elaboration” that slide from the figurative to the abtract, from the allegory to the icon deformation, combining renaissance reccollections with contemporaneous languages that much is owed to Escher, Dalì, Ernst, Magritte and Warhol, in a roundup of revised snapshots with great freedom. It is the same Franco Campoli who maintains that “the artist loves to entrust to revise graphically, subjects already belongings to his cultural group, accomplishing a series of work that represent the human figure, that, trough the study of visual perception, have the main particularity of being seen in three dimensions, like a stereogram” that is a two dimensional image capable of arriving at a three dimensional vision of the said, thanks to a sequence repeated several times and taking advantage of the binocular mechanism of man. Martina Marolda
Biography Alessandro Gambetti was born in Vicchio del Mugello (Florence) in 1959. In 1977 he got his Diploma at the Liceo Artistico and in 1983 he got his Diploma in painting at the Accademia di belle Arti (The fine Arts Academy) of Florence. From 1999 he is a regular art teacher at Scuola media in Siena. In the same year one of his painting’s picture is choosen by the Amburgo’s Agency (Germany) for an important advertising compaign In 2001 he is nominated academicians for the International Academy “Greci Marino” (literature, art and science Academy of Verbano in Vinzaglio-Novara). He took part to several public artistic exhibitions like Arte Padova in Padova, “Cromaticos” ( a painting exhibition in Castello Estense in Ferrara),art-expo in New York (USA) and more recently at the show “Firenze Arte” (the Pergola art gallery in Florence), finalist artist at seventh edition “National Price of painting and Sculpture “Città di Novara” Novara, at the first edition of Biennal Exhibition of Contemporary Art “Opposite Reflexes” (ex S.Charles Barnabiti Church, Florence). He has organizes some personal exhibition in Florence, Siena, and in their environs. The public and the opinions have appreciated his works His artworks are in several italian and foreigns web sites. Recently he has been invited and included in the virtual Saatchi Gallery of contemporary art- London, and one of his works was selected by curator Rebecca Wilson Saatchi art gallery in London to be part of the collection "Nacked nudes" A large part of his artworks are found in private collections in italy and abroad. At present his artworks is the result of the study of the human figure representing its many different signifant ranges (ironic, allegoric, symbolic, surreal, deformed), from the visual perception and how the two dimensional image can be seen in three dimensional; The use of new digital technique manipolations (computer graphic), that through creativity and the knowledge of the technique instruments, combine in continuous research work and in a new aesthetics painting development