Sandro De Alexandris Biography
Sandro De Alexandris was born in Turin on 31 December 1939, lives in Turin where he completed his studies at the Albertina Academy, completing them with stays in Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, etc. Since the early 1960s he has turned his attention to linguistic procedures that highlight the systematic and self-reflexive components of radical abstraction. A path along the line of cancellation and zeroing towards a state of suspension. Painting that questions painting, reading of the visual phenomenon and reflection on the mental dimension of the image, on the means and materials through which it develops, on its formation. Painting that questions itself by privileging the interior vision, poetic tension, the suggestions of color and light. In 1964 he created folded cards, research into the graduated modulation of two-dimensional spaces. The “Measurements of Space” cycle was exhibited in Munich in 1967. Between 1966 and 1969 he designed and created the “TS” work cycle. Surfaces with shifted thickness and sliding of the planes, through which to define spaces of visual concentrations, environmental dimensioners, for the realization of which he adopts extramedia technical operations. From the same years are the surfaces with minimum thicknesses and horizontal/orthogonal articulations, through which a marked lowering of perception takes place, which will find its natural development in the "t/n" cycle, 1974/78, surfaces scratched and systematically articulated according to a trend vertical, in which the perceptive lowering is led to its ultimate consequences. In 1981 he created triptychs, tripartite surfaces in which the perceptive lowering of the scratched surfaces is combined, in a relationship of tension/contrast, with fields of chromatic transparencies. Since 1982 the tables with superimpositions and stratifications of falling surfaces, papers and canvases organically arranged for scans, contrasts, chromatic consonances, transparencies. Theater of the making of painting.. Since the early 90s the cycle of work on the threshold of painting. Appearance and disappearance of light and color, painting that acts and seeks painting. His work has been exhibited and disseminated in numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums in Italian and European cities: Turin, Milan, Rome, Paris, Zurich, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Genoa, Bologna, Trieste, Graz, Basel, Bern, Lausanne , London, Philadelphia, Mainz, Koblenz, Hanover, etc. There is also a vast critical literature regarding his work, for which please refer to the summary monographs of: Paolo Fossati, (Sandro De Alexandris, il tempo suspend della Pittura, Martano Editore, Turin 1979). Roberto Pasini, (Sandro De Alexandris, De Ferrari Editore, Genoa 1997). Francesco Tedeschi, (De Alexandris, De Ferrari Editore, Genoa 2004). Claudio Cerritelli, (De Alexandris, Carte, Valente, Finale Ligure 2006). Claudio Cerritelli, Angela Madesani, (Sandro De Alexandris, Nicolodi Editore, Rovereto 2007). Alberto Veca, (De Alexandris, Equinozi, Art Annotations, Milan 2008). Francesco Poli, (Sandro De Alexandris, Il velo dell'aria, Giampiero Biasutti, Turin 2009). Gianni Contessi, For Sandro De Alexandris in (Sandro De Alexandris, Soglie, OOLP editore, Turin, 2014)
