Alessandro Alteo (1997) - Monocromo Bianco - 623

Mixed media - Hand-signed - 2025
Artist: Alessandro Alteo
Title: Monochrome White - 623
Technique: extroflexion on canvas
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 40x30
Condition: Perfect

Edition
One of a kind

"The setting images are for illustrative purposes and show possible exhibition solutions of the work. The real artwork is represented in the main photographs."

Delivery may require a few extra days to arrive the packaging materials necessary to ensure careful and adequate packing of the artwork. I do not ship to Switzerland. However, it is possible to arrange delivery or shipping to an address at the Italian border.

Photos may vary in tone due to lighting

Original work by Alessandro Alteo, characterized by a white monochrome surface, capable of generating a refined dialogue between light and shadow, matter and space.

The artist’s search draws on the great Italian extroflexion tradition, inspired by the formal elegance and plastic tension of masters such as Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Paolo Scheggi, Turi Simeti and Giuseppe Amadio, while engaging with the material strength of Alberto Burri and the sculptural monumentalism of Arnaldo Pomodoro. In this vein, the painting surface becomes a living, vibrant body, sensitive 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 imagery dialogically references 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.

Simultaneously, his visual sensibility draws on a pop-luxury and collectible aesthetic, where contemporary design, fashion and lifestyle icons — from Hermès, Dior, Chanel, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Bulgari, to symbolic references such as Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Daytona, Nautilus, Richard Mille — coexist with vintage recalls, analog photography, cinema, music, tin toys, and the visual memory of the 20th 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.

Alberto Alteo’s distinctive signature lies in the synthesis between geometric rigor and emotional lyricism, where the circle becomes a universal sign, a visual archetype and a space for contemplation.

This work thus establishes itself as a bridge between the analytic and extroflex Italian seasons and a urban, contemporary sensibility, presenting on Catawiki as a work of class, identity and strong aesthetic recognizability.