Massimiliano Alioto (1972) - Paesaggio

MASSIMILIANO ALIOTO

Massimiliano Alioto was born in Brindisi in 1972. He approached drawing as a child, then trained at the Art High School and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since 1994 he has begun exhibiting in Italy, presenting his works in cultural spaces, galleries and public venues between Florence, Rome and Milan.
From the late Nineties his path solidified through collaborations with important galleries and critics, including Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Alessandro Riva, Luca Beatrice, Chiara Canali, Duccio Trombadori, Angelo Crespi and Vittorio Sgarbi. In 2003 he participated in the IV Premio Cairo Communication at the Palace of the Permanente in Milan and in 2004 he exhibited in New York on the occasion of Scope Art.
Among the most significant milestones of his activity are the participation in 4 Way Street at Palazzo Te in Mantua, together with Agostino Arrivabene, Giorgio Ortona and Bernardo Siciliano, and the 2013 presence at the 55th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, in the Pavilion of the Syrian Arab Republic. His works have been published by several publishers, including Vallecchi, Damiani, Silvana, Electa and Maretti, and enter collections such as the Benetton Foundation, the Michetti Museum, the International Museum of Music in Bologna, the Rex Built In Collection and the Confindustria Collection. He lives and works in Milan.

DESCRIPTION
Landscape
Oil on panel
Signed and dated 2001 at the bottom
Work measurements: 70 x 80 cm
Frame measurements: 84 x 94 cm

In this Landscape, Massimiliano Alioto works on the broad, silent structure of the countryside, transforming the expanse of fields into a composition punctuated by planes, lines, and chromatic relationships. The subject remains recognizable, but is progressively brought toward a more essential vision, where the landscape becomes almost rhythm, surface, construction.
The composition is dominated by the scanning of the lands, arranged like large fields that follow one another toward the horizon. The fields take on the rhythm of an abstract construction, played on the alternation of yellows, greens, blues and violet tones.
On the horizon appear the posts and wires of tension, minimal yet decisive elements that introduce a contemporary note within the scene. The landscape is therefore not described in a naturalistic way, but reconstructed through a vision made of surfaces, traces and color relationships.
The painting is tactile and layered, with a worked, incised, and vibrant surface, where the fields are never uniform but crossed by marks, abrasions and tonal variations. The work well represents Alioto’s interest in landscape as a structure and image reworked, between observation of reality and compositional synthesis.

CONDITION REPORT
Good overall condition. The work is intact in every part, with legible color and a materially preserved painting surface. Frame present.
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