albertoballocca

Specialized in ancient cultures and natural patterns accordingly to Jungian theories. ( IG: albertoballocca2 ) 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, bound with water. Arabic gum, or dilute acrylic in proportions governed by perception rather than formula. Material is not a vehicle but a threshold: Ballocca treats its behavior under gravity, humidity, and absorption as structural to the work's meaning, allowing images to surface organically rather than be imposed. His sculptures extend this logic through discarded and obsolete technological objects, salvaged circuit boards, redundant hardware, spent consumer electronics, approached not as commentary on digital excess but as archaeological material, selected for symbolic weight rather than former function. The understanding that what a civilization discards often contains the only genuine intuitions from which new form can grow sits at the core of this work. Drawing on the ancient Greek concept of Kairos, qualitative, charged time as opposed to administered clock time, Ballocca locates meaning in the interval between gesture and construction, between natural pigment and industrial residue, between the ancient and the technological. His practice finds in that suspension a space where something genuinely new becomes possible.