ABOUT

 

BIOGRAPHY

Guido Albanese (Barletta, 1968) works at the intersection of painting and contemporary image practices.

Having trained at the Academy of Fine Arts and specialized in Set and Costume Design at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, he began his career as a theatrical concept artist before shifting exclusively toward painting, exploring its potential crossovers with digital media.

His research views landscape as a space for existential inquiry, integrating painting, digital processing, and AI-generated imagery to reflect on the relationship between materiality, technology, and the status of the contemporary image.

His works have been featured in contemporary art exhibitions and awards, receiving recognition for their innovative use of digital technologies in artistic practice.

Among his most notable recognitions are the Special Prize “Camera di Commercio” for Pavia Giovane Arte Europea (jury chaired by Rossana Bossaglia) and the Special Prize for the innovative use of new technologies at the Premio Città di Novara (jury chaired by Michelangelo Pistoletto). He was a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (2010) and for the Be Natural Be Wild competition in Biella (2024). Since 2023, he has collaborated with the digital art gallery Cinello.

STATEMENT

Guido Albanese's artistic research arises from the encounter between artificially generated images and pictorial intervention, in a constant oscillation between information and matter.

He uses digital technology not as a means of representation, but as the initial condition of a transformation process. The image is fragmented, printed, recomposed, and traversed by painting, without any of these phases being undone or corrected. Each step leaves a trace, irreversibly altering what preceded it.

His interest is not in opposing matter to algorithm, nor painting to technology. Rather, he seeks to inhabit the threshold where information and matter coexist without resolving into one another.

The landscape thus becomes a device through which to interrogate the condition of the contemporary image: its instability, its fragility, and its constant oscillation between presence and simulation.

Painting does not conclude the process. It constitutes a further transformation.

The Another World project represents the evolution of his research: an exploration of the relationship between image, technology, and matter, in which the landscape becomes the site of interaction between digital information and pictorial intervention. The image is not simply constructed or destroyed, but continually traversed, questioning its own way of existing.

EXHIBITIONS

• 2005 – Inkiostro, group show, Chiostro di S. Paolo, Ferrara

• 2006 – L’inquietudine, group show, Milan (Fondazione D’Ars)

• 2010 – Finalist exhibition, 4th Arte Laguna Prize, Venice

• 2024 – Finalist exhibition, Be Natural Be Wild, Biella (4th edition)

AWARDS AND PRIZES

• 2003 – Pavia – Young European Art, Special Award “Chamber of Commerce”

• 2004 – Celeste Award, 1st Edition, San Gimignano

• 2004 – National Award for Painting and Sculpture – City of Novara, Merit Plaque

• 2005 – Mention, Celeste Prize, 2nd Edition, San Gimignano

• 2006 – Special Prize from the Artistic Direction, City of Novara

• 2010 – Finalist, 4th Arte Laguna Prize, Photography section

• 2024 – Finalist, Be Natural Be Wild art competition, Painting section

PUBLICATIONS

• 2005 – National Award for Painting and Sculpture – City of Novara, catalogue, p.18

• 2005 – Celeste Prize, catalogue, Painting Medium section, p.55

• 2006 – City of Novara, catalogue, p.19

• 2010 – 4th Arte Laguna Prize – Venice, catalogue, p.142

• 2024 – Be Natural Be Wild – 4th Edition, Biella, catalogue, p.90

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