ALBERTO CONDOTTA
Biography
Alberto Condotta was born in Castelfranco Veneto (TV) on 17/4/1987.
He graduated with honours in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice in 2009 and, in 2011, he received his MA with full marks from the same institution.
From October 2010 to February 2011 he complemented his art education attending the MA Fine Arts course at Middlesex University in London, as part of the Erasmus program.
From October 2011 to December of the same year he attended a Masters course on the “Commedia dell’Arte” at ICAI in Padua.
Exhibitions
2012
Collective exhibition: Traduzioni, at Spazio Illimité, Mestre, Venezia.
2011
Collective exhibition: Ragged, at The Rag Factory, London.
Collective exhibition: Trasfigurazioni, at Ca’ dei Carraresi, Treviso.
Personal exhibition: Paint[h]ing, at Light Project space, Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University, London.
Collective exhibition: Parco Ungaretti, at Villa Manin, Passariano (UD).
Collective exhibition: Inaugurazione, at Spazio Pelodrilli, Treviso.
Personal exhibition: Vacuum, at Papermedia, Treviso.
Personal exhibition: E avrà I tuoi occhi, at ProgettoArte, Al Santo Cafe, Treviso.
2010
Video projection: Contrappunto at Omaggio a Maderna, sponsored by Agimus Venezia, conservatory B. Marcello, Venice.
Personal exhibition: Frames:Carso, at Centro Culturale Jezero, Doberdò del Lago (GO).
Collective exhibition: Inaugurazione at Centro studi De Poli, Venice.
Collective exhibition: L’altro corpo, at the Magazzino del sale n.3, Venice.
2009
Collective exhibition Atelier F, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
2008
Personal exhibition: Branches at the Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo (TV).
Collective exhibition Atelier F, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
About my work
For me painting is a constant attempt at constructing images that will not exhaust themselves within a simple glance, images that can survive the test of time and give life to something that cannot be otherwise recorded or expressed. My aspiration is to give a fictive life to intangible things, to things that do not exist or that no longer exist.
The thematic core of my work is the concept of lacking, expressed as a nostalgic memory or as mourning. My best paintings articulate presence through absence: they are living images of dead things.
I believe that, in order to create a living form, it is necessary to keep it a bit formless, so that it can be completed, in a different way, with each and every gaze.
Italo Calvino’s ideal of structural lightness inspires all my work; lightness is that quality of the artwork that manages to stimulate the viewer’s interpretative response in spite of its apparent simplicity.
The first steps I took along my artistic path were dedicated to finding my own pictorial language. After focusing my attention exclusively on non figurative compositions, I felt the need to harmonize figural levels within these structures: what I want is not simply to realize a mental image but to represent reality and, at the same time, mark its transformation.
Other visual media such as photography, printing methods and video play a very important part in my creative process.
I use color systematically, not only for its chromatic variation but also for variables of substance, thickness, porosity and brightness. Often my interventions overlap each other following precise geometrical schemes opening the surface of the painting to a haptic-auditory level: in other terms the onlooker, if he chooses to stop and observe the painting, is invited to listen to it with his eyes.
