ALESSANDRO SCARABELLO
Uppercrust
The Gallery Apart - Via di Monserrato 40, Roma
Inaugurazione: venerdì 6 dicembre, ore 18,30
SCHEDA INFORMATIVA
MOSTRA: Uppercrust
LUOGO: The Gallery Apart – Via di Monserrato, 40 – 00186 Roma
INAUGURAZIONE: giovedì 6 dicembre 2012
DURATA MOSTRA: 06.12.2012 – 09.02.2013
ORARI MOSTRA: dal martedì al sabato 15,00 - 19,00 e su appuntamento
INFORMAZIONI: The Gallery Apart – tel/fax 0668809863 – info@thegalleryapart.it – www.thegalleryapart.it
Alessandro Scarabello
Nato a Roma nel 1979 dove vive e lavora.
MOSTRE PERSONALI
2012 Uppercrust, The Gallery Apart, Roma
2010 nous voulons, The Gallery Apart, Roma
2009 Alessandro Scarabello al Rialtosantambrogio, The Gallery Apart presso Rialtosantambrogio, Roma
INSIDE #3, The Gallery Apart, Roma
2006 Tre di tre, Antica Fornace Laterizi, Serra de Conti, (AN)
2005 Lifeinlines, The Gallery Apart presso Sala 1, Roma
2002 Strutture metropolitane, Le Pain Quotidien, Roma
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2012 Centro Periferia, Federculture, mostra dei vincitori, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
Premio Combat Prize 2012, mostra dei finalisti, Museo Civico G. Fattori ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno
2011 Garagezero, Garage Zero, Roma
2010 Slaves, Teatro Palladium, Roma
Image et Mirage, 6ª Biennale di Tunisi, Palais Kheireddine, Tunisi, Tunisia
Impresa pittura, CIAC - Centro internazionale d'arte contemporanea, Genazzano (RM)
2009 Aftermath, 25a Biennale di Alessandria D'egitto, Egyptian Ministry of Culture Sector of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egitto Nuove Creatività nel Mondo, Camera dei deputati, Roma
Studiovisit - A review on works by young artists, SPACE Galeria Priestor c/o 26cc, Bratislava, Slovacchia
2008 Streams of consciousness – sei artisti contemporanei, Palazzo Grassi, Chioggia
Collezione Farnesina Experimenta, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma
Studiovisit – A review on works by Italian artists, 91mq art project space c/o 26cc, Berlino
UP-ART, The Gallery Apart, Roma
2007 Confronti, Federculture, Roma
Nuovi pittori della realtà, P.a.c Padiglione d'arte Contemporanea
Nuovi Realisimi, 58˚ edizione del Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (CH)
Spazi aperti 5, Accademia di Romania, Roma
Confronti, Federculture, Roma
2006 Futuro/Presente - Nuove Creatività, Federculture, Roma
2004 Architetture, Libreria FMR – Franco Maria Ricci, Milano
2003 Giovane figurazione, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
2002 L'aldilà nel mondo islamico e occidentale, Castello Rosso di Tripoli, Libia
2001 Visione intima, Linee della figurazione contemporanea, Biblioteca Nazionale di Tripoli, Libia
PREMI
2012 Combat Prize, 3° edizione, (Finalista della categoria pittura), Livorno
2010 Premio Terna, 3˚ edizione, (Finalista Gigawatt), Roma
2009 Premio Terna, 2˚ edizione, (Finalista Gigawatt), Roma
2008 Premio Terna, 1˚ edizione, (Finalista Gigawatt), Roma
2007 Nuovi Realisimi, 58˚ edizione del Premio Michetti, Francavilla al Mare (CH)
2006 Centro Periferia Concorso Internazionale Federculture per Giovani Artisti, Roma
2005 Premio Celeste, 2°edizione, (classificato tra i primi quindici della categoria pittura), San Gimignano (SI)
2003 Premio Cairo, 4°edizione, (classificato tra i primi venti), Milano
Alessandro Scarabello
Uppercrust
The Gallery Apart - Via di Monserrato 40, Rome
Vernissage: December 6th 2012, 6.30 pm
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The Gallery Apart is proud to present Uppercrust, Alessandro Scarabello's latest series of paintings and his third solo exhibition at the gallery.
"Upper crust" is an expression used in Anglo-Saxon societies to describe members of the highest social classes, the new aristocracy that exploits its dominant position in economic and financial terms, as well as in communications, in order to influence the masses. The phrase refers to loaves of bread baked in the ovens of the manor houses of the past that were perfectly brown on top (the upper crust) and burnt on the bottom. The top was set aside for the master of the house, while the bottom was designated to the servants. Through this expression, Scarabello continues his examination into humanity, looking at the protest movements that spread across the world over the past few years of the economic crisis and the renewed awareness of that 99% of the world population that has to bow down daily to the rules, the power and the interests of the remaining 1% of humanity. And it is this 1% that becomes the subject of his research. Thus, Scarabello gives life to the Uppercrust series, twelve large paintings, four of which are on exhibit in the gallery. They are life-size portraits of women and men, through whom the artist conveys the presumptuous confidence of belonging to an elite that looks down on the rest of the world from high above - and which the rest of the world looks up at with envy and contempt, but also with an ill-concealed desire of sharing its status.
Scarabello examines power through the portrayal of those who hold it and looks at the effects that the execution of power has on the protagonists' faces, bodies, postures and attitudes. His portraits, intentionally far from the true-to-life photographic models and the result of a free flowing expression of the artist's imagination and own unique inner vision, delve into what Scarabello defines as the raw naked soul. They also aim to convey to the beholder a feeling that evokes the sense of superiority of those who are portrayed and who appear aware of their roles as representatives of an elite community. And precisely in order to highlight this community aspect, this ability to not waste energy in the defense of individual privileges, Scarabello chose to position three large standing paintings in a triangular formation, hinged together on their sides allowing the structure to stay upright - exactly like the relationships, bonds and alliances that prop up the elites and allow their members to support each other. Similarly, a fourth painting appears free-standing in the middle of the space, yet it conceals a slender wood structure that sustains it. Thus Scarabello introduces the concept of weakness – a feebleness in substance that often hides behind common displays of power. Here he is inspired by the Potemkin village myth in which hollow facades of towns were constructed in order to impress the Empress Catherine II during her visit to the territories which had been annexed from the Ottoman Empire.
In addition to the large canvases, Scarabello presents an installation that is the expression and result of a catalogue of human beings who give life and breath to the meaning of power. This work of classification was also carried out through painting and is composed of more than one hundred small portraits. After choosing and taking pictures of a selection of the paintings, Scarabello put together a slideshow that gives substance to the installation in which two plinths are positioned one in front of the other, the first serving as a base for the projector and the second as a factitious body for the projected faces.
INFORMATION:
EXHIBITION: Uppercrust VENUE: The Gallery Apart – Via di Monserrato, 40 – 00186 Rome OPENING RECEPTION: December 6th, 2012 - 6.30pm RUNNING FROM: December 6th, 2012 / February 9th, 2013 OPENING HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday, 3.00pm – 7.00pm and by appointment INFO: The Gallery Apart – tel/fax 0668809863 – info@thegalleryapart.it – www.thegalleryapart.it
Alessandro Scarabello In 1979, he was born in Rome where he currently works and lives.
SOLO SHOW
2012 Uppercrust, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2010 nous voulons, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2009 Alessandro Scarabello at Rialtosantambrogio, The Gallery Apart c/o Rialtosantambrogio, Rome INSIDE #3, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2006 Tre di tre, Antica Fornace Laterizi, Serra de Conti, (AN) 2005 Lifeinlines, The Gallery Apart c/o Sala 1, Rome 2002 Strutture metropolitane, Le Pain Quotidien, Rome
SELECTED GROUP SHOW
2012 Premio Combat Prize 2012, group show of the finalists, Museo Civico G. Fattori ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno Centro Periferia, Federculture, group show of the winners, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 2011 Garagezero, GarageZero, Rome 2010 Slaves, Palladium Theater, Rome Image et Mirage, 6ª Biennale di Tunisi, Palais Kheireddine, Tunisi Impresa pittura, CIAC - International Center for Contemporary Art, Genazzano (Rome) 2009 Nuove Creatività nel Mondo, Federculture, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Rome Studiovisit - A review on works by young artists, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava Slovakia Aftermath, 25th Biennial for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria Art Museum, Alexandria, Egypt 2008 Streams of consciousness, curated by Cecilia Casorati, Palazzo Grassi, Chioggia (Venice) Experimenta – The Farnesina Collection, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome Studiovisit – A review on works by Italian artists, 91mq Art Project Space c/o 26cc, Berlin, Germany UP-ART, The Gallery Apart, Rome 2007 Nuovi pittori della realtà, PAC - Contemporary Arts Pavilion, Milan Nuovi Realisimi, 58th edition of Premio Michetti, Michetti Foundation, Francavilla al Mare (Chieti) Spazi aperti 5, Academy of Romania, Rome Confronti, Federculture, Rome 2006 Futuro/Presente - Nuove Creatività, Federculture, Rome 2004 Architetture, Franco Maria Ricci Library, Milan 2003 Giovane figurazione, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan 2002 L'aldilà nel mondo islamico e occidentale, Red Castle of Tripoli, Libya 2001 Visione intima, Linee della figurazione contemporanea, National Library of Tripoli, Libya
AWARDS
2010 Terna Prize, 3rd edition, (Finalist in the Gigawatt selection), Rome 2009 Terna Prize, 2nd edition, (Finalist in the Gigawatt selection), Rome
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