How and why did you start your artistic career?

I showed interest in drawing from a young age: I spent hours filling white sheets with drawings of horses, animals, and scenes from everyday life that I experienced at the time. After graduating from Art High School, I moved to Milan to enroll at the Brera Academy, Product Design program. It was during this period that I met the Argentine artist Mariano Franzetti, with whom I later became an assistant. This encounter proved fundamental to my artistic formation. During that time, I began to approach canvas painting, which immediately became a therapeutic form of expression for my soul. Painting is teaching me to observe and better understand everything that surrounds us. It is through art that we manage to decipher the meaning of our existence. By starting this path, I found my place in the world.

How did you discover your medium and why did you choose it?

I start from the assumption that I really like to experiment. I’m a curious person and I love learning to use new media. I mainly use oil on canvas or panel, a material I love for its rendering and that I find perfect for the pictorial result I want to achieve. I approached oil painting after studying Renaissance and Baroque painting. In addition to oil painting, I also dedicate myself to drawing with sanguine, charcoal, and sometimes I use acrylic paint and enamels.

Can you tell us about your creative process? How does your work come to life? How long does it take you to create a piece? When do you know it is finished?

My creative process is born from observing everything that surrounds us. Sometimes ideas come to me suddenly, almost like visions, and I try to capture them and then transpose them onto canvas. Each work develops through a flow of images and intuitions that I try to make concrete by deepening the subjects I deal with each time. The time I take to complete a work varies based on the complexity of the subject and my state of mind at that moment. I can take 1 week, 1 month, 6 months to finish a work. When I feel that the work has reached a balance and completeness, then I know it’s finished.

There are many artists I admire and who inspire me. I’m particularly passionate about the Florentine Renaissance and Baroque painting. In addition to the great masters like Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio, I also greatly esteem Artemisia Gentileschi and the Venetian painters like Tintoretto, Veronese, Titian, and Tiepolo. Among more modern artists, I greatly appreciate Vincenzo Gemito, the surrealists like Dalí and Frida Kahlo, the expressionists like Modigliani, Soutine, Egon Schiele, and generally all impressionist and post-impressionist painting. I also like artists such as David Hockney and Edward Hopper. However, the artist who most inspires me for his approach to art is Pablo Picasso. Not so much for his technique or pictorial result, but for his continuous search for new forms. I’m fascinated by the fact that Picasso went through countless periods, continuously changing style and form, but in each phase he always remained, deep down, himself.

THE ARTIST

Name: Alessandro Pizzuti
Residence: Italy

FEATURED WORKS