PAINTING

Guido Albanese's pictorial research focuses on landscape as a place of contemplation and dreamlike vision. Using primarily acrylic paints, the artist constructs primordial scenarios—deserts, glaciers, volcanoes, and cloudscapes—that do not refer to real places, but emerge as imagined projections, suspended in a timeless dimension.

He adopts a style that oscillates between neo-romanticism and expressionist realism, also influenced by Eastern art: it is not mere mannerism or a copy of reality, but an imaginary reconstruction, deliberately imprecise, that often leads to free gestures.

His pictorial language arises from a process of exploration that intertwines tradition and contemporaneity: from the Renaissance influences of Leonardo and Giorgione to Oriental ink painting (sumi-e, Chinese landscapes), to Turner, De Nittis, and Monet, before encountering the modern and contemporary resonances of Morandi, De Chirico, Rothko, and Richter.

The pictorial surface is structured through technical contaminations: from tonal to gestural painting, from the use of thick impastos or watercolors, from swirling brushstrokes to drips and stains. This results in a dynamic tension, a constant vibration between order and dissolution, between construction and erasure.

Light and atmosphere play a central role: the chromatic shifts of the sky and clouds, particularly in the liminal moments of sunset, become a poetic and compositional matrix. The painting thus takes on the character of the incomplete and the impermanent: works that seem to resist ultimate definition, born from a fragile balance.

Glaciers Series

Acrylic on paper or canvas

2020 - 2024