Biography
Born in Rome on 6th February 1963, in full socio-economic baby boom, attends religious schools which finally leaves at the end of the secondary school. A sports passionate, he plays basketball, football and skiing.
Since the early school days, enjoys drawing, finding gratification among his teachers. Participates to exhibition contests with most talented students adorning a drawing portraying Greek goddess Minerva, and making watercoloured pen-and-ink drawings.
The vicissitudes of life lead him to extreme choices: leaves the university and collaborates in the construction and design of out-of-town residences. He definetely changes course working and partnering with an advertising company. His work is linked to that of copywriters, which helps him finding cues for future works. Towards the end of this period, he resumes his paintbrush and canvas achieving medium and large sized paintings. He gives up oil painting for acrylic and other materials. His search in testing new materials becomes a constant, even if it remains in the limited work in progress without further application on cavas. The expessive power of colours and signs becomes a constant too.
Throughout the period from the first 20 years begins a psychoanalytical journey that brings to experiential groups and to a school of psychotherapy. The school focuses on the relationshiop that is binding inevitably Art therapies and the psychological, and even metapsychologies. Hence, the reading of books by the founder of editing company SUR, Antonio Mercurio, and books like “La vita come opera d’arte”, “Teoria della persona”. And the approach to philosophies that bring their contribution to the project of enlarging the view of the “I” part of one’s psyche.
The colour, its positive energy, is still a point of reference in its paintings, seeking the border line between abstract and figurative, between conscious and unconscious, between positive and negative, between brilliant and opaque. Where this fine and jagged line indicates the fragility and the strength of the human being and also of the living being.
The first exhibition is held in ‘97 in the same premises that hosted the Art Gallery “Nuova Pesa” with an excellent acknowledgement of paintings sold (80%), and a very good response from the public – a separation from pseudo securities, from the already written.
Still at the end of ’97, he opens a commercial space where he deals with Eastern art pieces of various eras, and keeps exhibition of both contemporary and Oriental Art.
In 2000, a new one-man exhibition at the Roots’ location.
In 2001, architect Sandro Morino commissions him a painting which shuold appear, single, in the hall of restruturing Delta Hotel. Being in the surroundings of the Colosseum, he draws inspiration from the monument as a symbol of not alteration of Art.
In 2004 he leaves the business activity to continue his journey between psyche and art: he reads Alexander Lowen, who proposes an approach to the psyche not loose from the body, and his language.
He begins a course of bioenergetic counseling, and rediscovers the desire to create, but this time through the technology, through the computer and the press on canvas. Which, in a second time, he will re-activate, or better, will complete with a manual work with colour and more. Always in the attempt of creating a link, a bridge, between two different bodies, in this case, between technology (machine) and man.
In the late spring of 2006, he proposes 22 works in a context of working daily life, a bank, the Banca Sella.
The exhibition is called Crossroads and is based on two paintings (Crossroads in red and Crossroads in black and white), reviewed by Miriam Castelnuovo. It is a good success, and a spur to continue this metapainting approach between the hand and the mouse. Between the body and mind. Between the freedom of colour and the uniqueness of the sign.
The themes is architecture in urban areas with regard to which Mrs Castelnuovo writes:
"…Alessandro chooses a fuchsia pink for Rome, with which he turns on the image shown on the canvas of the Tevere river flowing under a bridge... He uses a phosphorescent green to delineate the sky background to the metallic roofs made by Renzo Piano for the Roman Auditorium”. And other topics, such as the cruelty of war, where he rereads and re-elaborates the famous "click" of American soldiers at Iwo Jima, in Korea, a theme which curiously anticipates the good film by American film director Clint Eastwood on the same episode. It is, as Castelnuovo affirms, "the balanced reviewing of his childhood, reconstructed through photographic frames that capture him as a child, and which Alessandro himself analyses as if he were another himself, by using that apparently emotional aloofness marked by the time that passes”. Furthermore, Castelnuovo completes and summarizes “…Sansoni passes through some fundamental narrative episodes, a sort of autobiographical emotional fil rouge which goes by, unfolding, where the desire of optimism and hope plays a major role. In December of the same year he exposes some 20 paintings always with the same technique, in a place, La Taberna, situated in the very historical centre of Rome. His paintings, once again, are exhibited in places that are external to the traditional circuits. The exhibition is titled Passions, where inspiration comes from the sweetness of flowers such as roses, orchids, processed and blurred; where only one single part is the right one, the one perfectly focused, the unique one, where the colour reaches the object.
The dearest themes to the artist are thoroughly touched, the passion that must turn on and make life less flat and greater. The psychological theories linked to breath, to the body, to the reappropriation of his infant, animal and playful side, are re-affirmed. The aircrafts and the sound the children make evoking them.
The following rendezvous takes place in Rome a few steps from the Spanish Square, in the Via Propaganda Fide, within the bright space Cappellini, well-known brand of international design. Among stimulating and coloured pieces of design, he presents his 20 paintings mostly in white and black with a minimum, but essential, allure to colour.
The reviewers seem to welcome the paintings as well as the public, which buys good part of the works.
The exhibition is titled Osmosis, and aims to witness the force and the vitality of technology and fantasy, machine and man, rationality and instinct. Osmosis marks an important point in undertaking the journey the artist intends to make; the steering from Passions is clear, as well as the desire to have a clear identity.
During the summer time in the 2007, he performs potraits of children, a theme which he loves much, always with a pinch of lightness and colour. He uses a previously made painting, BAHNTOWER, to make the cover of a CD by director and 20th-century music composer Flavio Emilio Scogna.
In July 08 he also performs in the amaizing roman gardens (now public park) Villa Torlonia. With other artists, he shows paintings regarding the relation art and nature.
Exhibitions in September and October (Way out and Ways) is a new step in his voyage through his personal interior search.
Other exhibit you can see on the following script.
Last exhibitions :
Crossroads - Banca Sella – Roma, Piazza S. Giovanni di Dio 14/a dal 26 Giugno al 26 Luglio 2006
Passions - Wine bar La Taberna Vicolo della Campana 5, 1 dicembre 2006
Osmosi - Spazio Cappellini - Via di Propaganda, 8/b, dal 5 giugno 2007 al 30 settembre 2007
De civitate dei - Villa Torlonia - Casina delle civette, 9 giugno 2008
Way out - Zen sushi Roma via degli Scipioni 243, Settembre 2008
Fabrica - Fabrica Via G. Savonarola 8 Roma, 22 ottobre - 18 novembre 2008
Caffè letterario - Collettiva “ Geometrie dell’intelletto” - Via Ostiense 83/95 Autunno 2008
New York state of mind - personale - Via Colli della Farnesina 234 Roma Febbraio 09
L’arte di amare l’arte dell’Abruzzo – Palazzo Venezia. Via del Plebiscito 118, Roma 8 Luglio 2009
FILOROSSO – Personale presso Fondaco Via degli Zingari 37 , Roma 27 Novembre 2009
Mostra Bruno Buozzi - UIL Via Mantegna 130 Roma 18 Gennaio 2010
Indirizzo studio: Via Colli della Farnesina 234
Tel. 063292854 cell.3355804241
Email: info@alessandrosansoni.com
Since the early school days, enjoys drawing, finding gratification among his teachers. Participates to exhibition contests with most talented students adorning a drawing portraying Greek goddess Minerva, and making watercoloured pen-and-ink drawings.
The vicissitudes of life lead him to extreme choices: leaves the university and collaborates in the construction and design of out-of-town residences. He definetely changes course working and partnering with an advertising company. His work is linked to that of copywriters, which helps him finding cues for future works. Towards the end of this period, he resumes his paintbrush and canvas achieving medium and large sized paintings. He gives up oil painting for acrylic and other materials. His search in testing new materials becomes a constant, even if it remains in the limited work in progress without further application on cavas. The expessive power of colours and signs becomes a constant too.
Throughout the period from the first 20 years begins a psychoanalytical journey that brings to experiential groups and to a school of psychotherapy. The school focuses on the relationshiop that is binding inevitably Art therapies and the psychological, and even metapsychologies. Hence, the reading of books by the founder of editing company SUR, Antonio Mercurio, and books like “La vita come opera d’arte”, “Teoria della persona”. And the approach to philosophies that bring their contribution to the project of enlarging the view of the “I” part of one’s psyche.
The colour, its positive energy, is still a point of reference in its paintings, seeking the border line between abstract and figurative, between conscious and unconscious, between positive and negative, between brilliant and opaque. Where this fine and jagged line indicates the fragility and the strength of the human being and also of the living being.
The first exhibition is held in ‘97 in the same premises that hosted the Art Gallery “Nuova Pesa” with an excellent acknowledgement of paintings sold (80%), and a very good response from the public – a separation from pseudo securities, from the already written.
Still at the end of ’97, he opens a commercial space where he deals with Eastern art pieces of various eras, and keeps exhibition of both contemporary and Oriental Art.
In 2000, a new one-man exhibition at the Roots’ location.
In 2001, architect Sandro Morino commissions him a painting which shuold appear, single, in the hall of restruturing Delta Hotel. Being in the surroundings of the Colosseum, he draws inspiration from the monument as a symbol of not alteration of Art.
In 2004 he leaves the business activity to continue his journey between psyche and art: he reads Alexander Lowen, who proposes an approach to the psyche not loose from the body, and his language.
He begins a course of bioenergetic counseling, and rediscovers the desire to create, but this time through the technology, through the computer and the press on canvas. Which, in a second time, he will re-activate, or better, will complete with a manual work with colour and more. Always in the attempt of creating a link, a bridge, between two different bodies, in this case, between technology (machine) and man.
In the late spring of 2006, he proposes 22 works in a context of working daily life, a bank, the Banca Sella.
The exhibition is called Crossroads and is based on two paintings (Crossroads in red and Crossroads in black and white), reviewed by Miriam Castelnuovo. It is a good success, and a spur to continue this metapainting approach between the hand and the mouse. Between the body and mind. Between the freedom of colour and the uniqueness of the sign.
The themes is architecture in urban areas with regard to which Mrs Castelnuovo writes:
"…Alessandro chooses a fuchsia pink for Rome, with which he turns on the image shown on the canvas of the Tevere river flowing under a bridge... He uses a phosphorescent green to delineate the sky background to the metallic roofs made by Renzo Piano for the Roman Auditorium”. And other topics, such as the cruelty of war, where he rereads and re-elaborates the famous "click" of American soldiers at Iwo Jima, in Korea, a theme which curiously anticipates the good film by American film director Clint Eastwood on the same episode. It is, as Castelnuovo affirms, "the balanced reviewing of his childhood, reconstructed through photographic frames that capture him as a child, and which Alessandro himself analyses as if he were another himself, by using that apparently emotional aloofness marked by the time that passes”. Furthermore, Castelnuovo completes and summarizes “…Sansoni passes through some fundamental narrative episodes, a sort of autobiographical emotional fil rouge which goes by, unfolding, where the desire of optimism and hope plays a major role. In December of the same year he exposes some 20 paintings always with the same technique, in a place, La Taberna, situated in the very historical centre of Rome. His paintings, once again, are exhibited in places that are external to the traditional circuits. The exhibition is titled Passions, where inspiration comes from the sweetness of flowers such as roses, orchids, processed and blurred; where only one single part is the right one, the one perfectly focused, the unique one, where the colour reaches the object.
The dearest themes to the artist are thoroughly touched, the passion that must turn on and make life less flat and greater. The psychological theories linked to breath, to the body, to the reappropriation of his infant, animal and playful side, are re-affirmed. The aircrafts and the sound the children make evoking them.
The following rendezvous takes place in Rome a few steps from the Spanish Square, in the Via Propaganda Fide, within the bright space Cappellini, well-known brand of international design. Among stimulating and coloured pieces of design, he presents his 20 paintings mostly in white and black with a minimum, but essential, allure to colour.
The reviewers seem to welcome the paintings as well as the public, which buys good part of the works.
The exhibition is titled Osmosis, and aims to witness the force and the vitality of technology and fantasy, machine and man, rationality and instinct. Osmosis marks an important point in undertaking the journey the artist intends to make; the steering from Passions is clear, as well as the desire to have a clear identity.
During the summer time in the 2007, he performs potraits of children, a theme which he loves much, always with a pinch of lightness and colour. He uses a previously made painting, BAHNTOWER, to make the cover of a CD by director and 20th-century music composer Flavio Emilio Scogna.
In July 08 he also performs in the amaizing roman gardens (now public park) Villa Torlonia. With other artists, he shows paintings regarding the relation art and nature.
Exhibitions in September and October (Way out and Ways) is a new step in his voyage through his personal interior search.
Other exhibit you can see on the following script.
Last exhibitions :
Crossroads - Banca Sella – Roma, Piazza S. Giovanni di Dio 14/a dal 26 Giugno al 26 Luglio 2006
Passions - Wine bar La Taberna Vicolo della Campana 5, 1 dicembre 2006
Osmosi - Spazio Cappellini - Via di Propaganda, 8/b, dal 5 giugno 2007 al 30 settembre 2007
De civitate dei - Villa Torlonia - Casina delle civette, 9 giugno 2008
Way out - Zen sushi Roma via degli Scipioni 243, Settembre 2008
Fabrica - Fabrica Via G. Savonarola 8 Roma, 22 ottobre - 18 novembre 2008
Caffè letterario - Collettiva “ Geometrie dell’intelletto” - Via Ostiense 83/95 Autunno 2008
New York state of mind - personale - Via Colli della Farnesina 234 Roma Febbraio 09
L’arte di amare l’arte dell’Abruzzo – Palazzo Venezia. Via del Plebiscito 118, Roma 8 Luglio 2009
FILOROSSO – Personale presso Fondaco Via degli Zingari 37 , Roma 27 Novembre 2009
Mostra Bruno Buozzi - UIL Via Mantegna 130 Roma 18 Gennaio 2010
Indirizzo studio: Via Colli della Farnesina 234
Tel. 063292854 cell.3355804241
Email: info@alessandrosansoni.com