ALESSANDRO ALGARDI

Infuenced by the Milanese movement of Piero Manzoni and Lu- cio Fontana, Algardi’s work is a unique mix of poetry, calligraphy, the power of monochrome and the gentleness of light. The artist has participated in over one hundred exhibitions throughout the world, notably at the Venice International Centre of the Arts and the MoMA in New York.

In the United States, Algardi’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa and the College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia; in Italy at the Museo di Giovanni Verga in Vizzini.

Algardi’s work fluctuates within the experimental eld of the visual-poetic, examining the fuidity between the act of writing and the materiality of the canvas. Working on monochromatic canvas and paper, his works reveal several layers of scripture superimposed onto one another to generate unreadable lines of text. While the text becomes indecipherable, the negative space in between suggests a symphony in what remains unsaid.