Painting Clouds
Alex Urso
08.06.24 - 31.08.24
Painting Clouds is Alex Urso's solo show that officially inaugurates the new THEPÒSITO Art Space contemporary art gallery in Narni Scalo, Umbria. The exhibition's research ideally starts from the series Dipingere le nuvole (Painting Clouds), created by the artist between 2021 and 2022, and reshapes the space of the new Umbrian gallery by introducing a production never presented to the public before. In Painting Clouds Urso addresses in a personal way the delicate theme of the artist's 'work,' understood here not as a creative pursuit, but as a livelihood activity, a task that the artist himself is called upon to perform in order to pursue his own research. The series becomes the premise for analyzing, and to some extent criticizing, the social preconception according to which the artist is still associated with that person – a romantic and a dreamer - who lives exclusively from their own passion.
Photo credit Tanita Gennari
Artist
Alex Urso
(b. 1987, Civitanova Marche - Italy)
He lives and works in Ripatransone. Multidisciplinary artist, he graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His interests are transversal, as well as the techniques used in his projects, from installation to collage to the use of augmented reality. He has exhibited at Casa Testori (Milan), Fondazione Brugnatelli (Milan), Studio 87 (Valletta), Magacin Gallery (Belgrade), Italian Institute of Culture in Cracow, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Monopol Gallery (Warsaw), Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (London), Entropia Gallery (Breslau), Palazzo Malipiero (Venice).
From 2012 to 2019 he’s lived in Warsaw, carrying on his artistic research and dealing with curatorship.
