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Alessandro Costantino was born in 1970 in Florence, Italy.

He studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence
He lives and works in Paris since december 2006.

Alessandro Costantino takes expressionism as his starting point, alternating deformed and more realistic figurative representations. His is a bright palette of colours and contrasts.

Apparently uncontrolled brush strokes, sometimes distorted figures, careless drops of paint and insistently warm colour express uneasiness with convention, a methodology for detachment from the conformism of unconsciously absorbed social and cultural norms that restrict and alienate. In Costantino’s world, man has become a continual recitation of the conventional attitudes of everyday social relations, a manifestation of the repression of instinct and a false sense of the self. Free pictorial expression becomes a manifesto for free and instinctive social expression.

This free use of signifiers in combination with such clear chromatic intent is a reflection of Costantino’s need to reject order, a repetitious, unnatural order… the desire to domesticate one’s own existence that by its very nature cannot be domesticated… order and discipline, order of the spirit, a stifling of creativity and imagination…

Distinct series can be distinguished in Costatino’s oeuvre, from dominant figurative colours to a pull towards draftsmanship. In his drawings he achieves increased reflection and calm born out of a kind of intellectual relaxation and the impression of more sincere human relations.

Costantino’s overall vision, however, bears witness to a constant restlessness, a swirl of feeling that finds expression in continually changing designs and contrasts in colour. Rather than repeated reproductions (craftsmanship) that might result in a forced regression of the creative process, Costantino’s painting is a mirror to mood change, emotional disturbance.

Tino Stancos

Fabruary 2009: solo exhibition at the FYR Gallery, Florence

Curated by Francesca Spisto (read text in italian)

photos of the exhibition

Principals exhibitions:

1999       - group exhibition, xilographs, Backnanger, Germany
                - solo exhibition Parterre, Florence, Italy

2000       - group exhibition Fyr Gallery,Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibition Rex, Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibitionCardillac, Florence, Italy
                - group exhibition Ken's Art Gallery, Florence, Italy

2001       - group exhibition Ken's Art Gallery, Florence, Italy

2002       - solo exhibition Galleria Studio Interior, Lidi Ferraresi, Italy
                - solo exhibition Galleria G. Farinella, Ferrara, Italy

2003       - 'Nuove Proposte', group exhibition, Florence, Italy
                - group exhibition, Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibition Galleria G. Farinella, Ferrara, Italy
                - solo exhibition Art-B, Campi Bisenzio, Florence, Italy

2004       - solo exhibition, "xilografie da Ulisse", Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibition atelier via Gioberti, Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibition atelier Manetti, New York City, U.S.A.
                - group exhibition 'Linking Square', Scandicci,Florence, Italy

2005       - solo exhibition "Femmina", Piccolo, Florence, Italy
                - solo exhibition atelier via Gioberti, Florence, Italy

2006       - group exhibition Fyr Gallery,Florence, Italy

2007       - 'Portes Ouvertes', Ivry-Sur-Seine, Paris
                - solo exhibition atelier Manetti, New York City, U.S.A.
                - 8/9 december, group exhibition "chez Monique Attias-Leroy", Paris

2008       - group exhibition Fyr Gallery, Florence, Italy

2009
- solo exhibition curated by Francesca Spisto, Galleria Fyr, Florence, Italy

2010
- 57e Salon Charenton, Charenton-le-Pont, Paris
- solo group exhibition "Chez Monique Attias-Leroy", Paris

2011
- 58e Salon Charenton, Paris

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