Alberto Ballocca - Photosynthesis - XXL

Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993, Turin, Italy) works across painting and sculpture through a process rooted in instinct, accumulation and deliberate surrender to the unknown. His pigments are sourced rather than purchased — volcanic rock dust, ochre extracted from ancient woodland soils outside Turin, industrial dye reclaimed from textile production, high-resistance mineral pigments used in antiquity restoration. The artist's background, self-taught in technical and studio research, is unique and linked to sensitive factors, despite the intense classical inspiration. His works have been displayed in Italy, London, Amsterdam and Beijing in 2024 both in group and solo shows and are now slated for the Focus Fair in New York in May. Entering different public and private institutional collections such as Museo M.m.m.a.c in Paestum, Accademia Albertina in Torino and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in South Korea. Alberto is paving a unique and renewed expression on the currently shared inquiry into the presence of ancient philosophical structures in technological usages through his artistic practices.

Mixed media. Perfect status. Oil, pigments and airbrush on canvas, 85 x 115 cm - 33" x 45". Signed on the front and the back with ink. Shipped rolled.

"Photosynthesis is a term rooted in the ancient Greek philosophical syllabic concept of (Ph.y.sis gr. "Nature") and explores the enigmatic process by which plants transform sunlight into nourishment. Using the Winged Victory statue in Turin's Parco della Rimembranza (a copy of the Greek Nike) as a symbolic medium; Nature, which remains the fundamental axiom underlying every mathematical theorem, is the only mirror we have as humans to understand societal perceptions in a renewed light. The dominant component is cyclicality, with symbolic elements reappearing in various forms, upgraded by looped recollection of ideas and impulses as natural cycles work."