Alessandro Alteo (1997) - Monocromo - 621

Mixed media - Hand-signed - 2025

Artist: Alessandro Alteo
Title: Monochrome - 621
Technique: Extroflexion on canvas
Materials: Felt on support
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm (frame included)
Condition: Excellent

Original work by Alessandro Alteo (born 1997), characterized by a monochrome surface capable of generating a refined dialogue between light and shadow, matter and space. The outwardly folded shapes in felt emerge from the surface, creating an elegant contemporary three-dimensional effect, where visual rhythm arises from the balance between positive and negative spaces.

The artist’s research has roots 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, Lucio Fontana, Turi Simeti and Giuseppe Amadio, while engaging with the material force of Alberto Burri and the sculptural monumentality of Arnaldo Pomodoro, up to the monochrome and analytical explorations of Bernard Aubertin and the poetic sensibility of Giorgio Morandi. In this lineage, the painting surface becomes a living, vibrant body, sensitive to light and gaze.

Within modern abstraction, Alessandro 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 imagination idealistically dialogues with artists and movements ranging from Banksy, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, to urban culture linked to Shepard Fairey (OBEY), JR, Invader, Space Invader, Jef Aérosol, C215, Futura 2000, COPE2, Vhils, D*Face, Os Gêmeos, JonOne, Alec Monopoly, Speedy Graphito, Hayden Kays, Kev Munday, Chanoir.

Up to the more contemporary declinations of the international urban and post-graffiti scene, with figures such as Sandra Chevrier, Handiedan, Chuck Sperry, Borondo, PichiAvo, Orticanoodles, Inti, Saner, M-City, Levalet, Cranio, Dan23, DZIA, Hom Nguyen and André Saraiva, Mario Merz, Lucio Fontana.

Meanwhile, his visual sensibility nourishes a pop-luxury and collectible aesthetic, where icons of design, fashion and contemporary lifestyle – from Hermès, Dior, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Bulgari to the collecting imaginary tied to Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Daytona, Nautilus, Richard Mille – live alongside references to silkscreen printing, printmaking, vinyl, analog photography, cinema, tin toys and the visual memory of the twentieth century.

There are also cultivated references to art history, from Mario Schifano to Joan Miró, from Salvador Dalí to Pierre Soulages, contributing to strengthen the conceptual and visual dimension of the work between abstraction, matter and light.

Alberto Alteo’s distinctive hallmark lies in the synthesis between geometric rigor and emotional lyricism, where the surface becomes a space of contemplation and perception. This work thus stands as a bridge between the analytic and extroflexed Italian phases and a urban, contemporary sensibility, presenting itself as a piece with strong identity, visual impact and aesthetic recognizability in the contemporary art landscape.

Unique work, handmade, with a three-dimensional effect. Frame included, ready to hang.

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Artwork archived on Gigarte with certificate of authenticity.