Alessandro Alteo (1997) - Monocromo Rosso - 599

Mixed technique - Hand-signed - 2025
Artist: Alessandro Alteo
Title: Red Monochrome - 599
Technique: outfolding on canvas
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 70x50
Condition: Mint

The color may vary from photo to photo due to lighting!

Narrative description:
Original work by Alessandro Alteo, characterized by a red monochrome surface that hosts a circular form, capable of generating a delicate play of light and shadow.

The work ideally situates itself in the tradition of the outfolding research started in the 1960s by masters such as Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani and Paolo Scheggi, artists who surpassed the traditional concept of painting by transforming the canvas into a living, vibrant body, in which light continuously interacts with the surface.

At the same time, Alteo develops a language that dialogues with the rigor of American minimalism (Donald Judd) and with the perceptual inquiry of Op Art (Victor Vasarely), without forgetting the evocative power of Yves Klein’s monochromes.

His personal hallmark resides in the synthesis between geometry and lyricism, where the circular element becomes a universal sign, a visual archetype inviting silent, meditative contemplation.

This work thus represents an ideal bridge between the great era of analytical and outfolding Italian art and a contemporary, current and refined sensibility.

Stylistic deepening:
This three-dimensional painting by Alteo belongs to a refined and cultured strand, rooted in the postwar era when Italian artists sought a new spirituality of form. Painting became real space, living surface, a theater of invisible forces.

Today, Alteo renews this language in a contemporary key: his monochromes are not nostalgic, but radically current, ready to dialogue with architecture, minimalist design, and the sensibility of the modern collector.


Shipping:
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Each photo and angle could alter the color


Drawing inspiration from the elegance of Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Luigi Sonzini, Paolo Scheggi, Giuseppe Amadio, Turi Simeti and Arnaldo Pomodoro.
In Modern Abstract art, approaching modern and contemporary art, to Pop Art, inspired by the creativity of Banksy, Keith Haring, Orlinski, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Dillon Boy, Obey, Santicri, Sagrasse, following general trends and personal taste.
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