Alessandro Alteo (1997) - Monocromo Blu - 595

Mixed technique - Hand-signed - 2025
Artist: Alessandro Alteo
Title: Monochrome Blue - 595
Technique: outfolding on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 50x40
Condition: Excellent

One of a kind

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Original work by Alessandro Alteo, characterized by a monochrome blue surface traversed by an outward-folding circular form, capable of generating a refined dialogue between light and shadow, matter and space.

The artist’s research has its roots in the great Italian tradition of outfolding, drawing inspiration from the formal elegance and plastic tension of masters such as Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Paolo Scheggi, Turi Simeti and Giuseppe Amadio, while dialoguing with the material strength of Alberto Burri and the sculptural monumental presence of Arnaldo Pomodoro. In this lineage, the pictorial surface becomes a living, vibrant body, sensitive to light and gaze.

Within a modern abstract idiom, Alteo builds a personal language that opens toward modern and contemporary art, integrating influences from minimalism, Pop Art and, above all, Street Art and Graffiti writing. His imagination ideally dialogues with artists and movements ranging from Banksy, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Koons, Shepard Fairey (OBEY), JR, Invader, Space Invader, Jef Aerosol, C215, Futura 2000, COPE2, Vhils, D*Face, Os Gemeos, Seth, Speedy Graphito, JonOne, Alec Monopoly, to figures such as Sandra Chevrier, Handiedan, Chuck Sperry, Borondo, PichiAvo, Orticanoodles, Saner, Inti, M-City, Levalet, Dan23, DZIA, Cranio, Dillon Boy.

Paralleling this, his visual sensibility feeds on a pop-luxury and collecting aesthetics, where design, fashion and contemporary lifestyle icons – from Hermès, Dior, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Bulgari, to symbolic references like Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Daytona, Nautilus, Richard Mille – coexist with references to vintage, analog photography, cinema, music, tin toys and the visual memory of the twentieth century.

There are scholarly references to art history as well, from Mario Schifano to Joan Miró, from Salvador Dalí to Pierre Soulages, contributing to reinforce the conceptual dimension of the work.

Alberto Alteo’s distinctive signature lies in the synthesis between geometric rigor and emotive lyricism, where the circle becomes a universal sign, a visual archetype and a space for contemplation. This work thus stands as a bridge between the Italian analytic and outfolding season and a contemporary urban sensibility, presenting itself on Catawiki as a classed work, identity and strong aesthetic recognizability.