Alessandro Alteo (1997) - Monocromo Blu - 598

Mixed media - Hand-signed - 2025
Artist: Alessandro Alteo
Title: Monochrome Blue - 598
Technique: extroflexion on canvas
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 70x50
Condition: Excellent

Unique of its kind

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

The artist’s research takes root in the great Italian tradition of extroflexion, 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 force of Alberto Burri and the sculptural monumentalism of Arnaldo Pomodoro. In this lineage, the painted surface becomes a living, vibrant body, responsive to light and gaze.

Within a modern abstraction, Alteo builds a personal language that opens to modern and contemporary art, integrating influences from minimalism, Pop Art and especially Street Art and Graffiti writing. His imaginary 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.

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

There are also cultured references to art history, from Mario Schifano to Joan Miró, from Salvador Dalí to Pierre Soulages, which contribute to strengthening the conceptual dimension of the work.

Alessandro Alteo’s distinctive hallmark lies in the synthesis of geometric rigour and emotional lyricism, where the circle becomes a universal sign, a visual archetype and a space for contemplation.

This work thus presents itself as a bridge between the Italian analytical and extroflexed season and a contemporary, urban sensibility, positioned on Catawiki as a piece of class, identity and strong aesthetic recognizability.