Ale Guzzetti Biography
Ale Guzzetti (1953 - ) was born in Tradate, Varese in 1953 and lives and works in Saronno (Va). He studied at the Brera Art School from 1967 to 1971 and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, from 1971 to 1975, the year in which he graduated in Painting. At the same time he conducted electronic music studies and research at the Polytechnic of Milan and the Center for Computational Sonology of the University of Padua; 3D modeling and animation at the European Institute of Design in Milan. He was a PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth UK, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics; at the Brera Contemporary Research Center, Milan. He is currently a teacher of Multimedia Techniques at the Brera Academy in Milan. Since 1983 he has worked on the forms and electronic circuits of sound sculptures combined with constant reflection on the thought of complexity and its scientific and epistemological manifestations. The sound sculptures are composed of industrially produced plastic objects which are assembled according to the combinatorial possibilities of their forms and the need to house the electronic circuits built by the artist inside. In the 1990s he expanded his artistic research with electronic watercolors (synthetic images taken from musical motifs processed by a computer) and speaking glasses (lamp-blown glass sculptures capable of listening to and re-elaborating the surrounding sounds, of seeing and reproducing the image of the spectators through micro-cameras, to emit interactive light signals with environmental events) as well as sound sculptures. His works have been exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Finland, UK, Albania, Lebanon, Canada, USA, Hong Kong. He was highlighted among the hundred artists of the world by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in the exhibition “The Next Millennium Museum” in 2000. Four of his works were acquired in 2002 by the National Gallery of Prague for the International Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art; two of his glasses in 2003 from the Corning Museum of Glass New York and two glasses in 2004 from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
