|
ALO is an Italian artist born in Ancona in 1981 and currently based in London. He studied at the faculty of Industrial Design in Florence where he attended a fine art and drawing course. In the early stage of his career, ALO's oil paintings focused on female portraiture and on the representation of human loss and defeat which will become the landmark subject of his "losers" series. After few months, ALO decided to continue his activity working as a self-taught artist. This formation period led him to define his current style based on linear intersections and strong chromatic contrasts. Four years later ALO went back to his native city, Perugia, for his very first solo exhibition "The underdogs show". Influenced by the street art world, ALO decided to reproduce his indoor techniques in the outdoor spaces and started travelling around Europe, in particular to Rome, Milan, Berlin and then to Paris and London, the cities that offered him the biggest open air canvas.〔http://www.aloart.org/p/walls.html〕 ALO is currently based in London, where he had his first major solo show "Hail to the loser" at Saatchi Gallery, with which he started a continuous collaboration. == Urban Expressionism == ALO defines himself as a "street art painter" and describes his own art as "urban expressionism". Both definition might seem contradictory, but they are actually fundamental to understand ALO's style and references.〔https://www.designfaves.com/2014/11/street-art-portraits-describe-individuals-from-the-inside-out〕 Influenced by the French and German Expressionism of the beginning of the 20th century, ALO choses the oil paint as his initial medium. Some of the aspects of his most recent pieces, such as the strong chromaticism and the stylized human figures, can be already seen in his very first body of work. Inspired by the sharp lines and colours of the African art, ALO's style got the more and more refined and recognisable and the use of the acrylic paint in his works became predominant. ALO's work has been inspired by a variety of influences, from Cezanne and Van Gogh to Kirchner and Picasso. ALO portrays people at the corners of the city streets, at the margins of society. ALO's street pieces preserve not only the relatively small sizes of his indoor canvases, but also their acrylic based techniques. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ALO (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|