the painter’s room #3

Alessandro Bazan

What form could contemporary “pictorial realism” take today?? Alessandro Bazan asks himself exactly this question.
His pictorial cycles can be divided into two expressive lines: intimate events, set in interior spaces, and public stories, set in outdoor landscapes. In both cases we are catapulted in front of a frame, a frozen frame of what is certainly the film - or video - of a story that includes a before and an after. In this case the titles seem more like those of a drama than of a painting: even the most iconic ones […] they force us to look better at what the artist has painted, to find out which asymmetry links the image to the (possible) story indicated by the word.

Extract from the text by Marco Senaldi

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Alessandro Bazan | Fulvio Di Piazza. Abstract ", curated by Marco Senaldi, 28 May – 8 August 2020, Gallery Giovanni Bonelli, Milan.

The painter's room - Elements of contemporary painting is an editorial series that narrates and collects the testimonies of contemporary painters who, at various levels, they are indicative of the evolution and topicality of the pictorial language, giving voice both to the Masters and to the mid-career artists as well as to the young promises who are confronted with this medium.