Massimiliano Alioto - I Saw the Sea

The seascape is a recurring theme among artists. First, because of the lyricism implicit in views overlooking the sea or romantic images of harbors. Second, because the depiction of aquatic surfaces allows painters to unleash their chromatic flair, thanks to refined interplays of reflections and reverberations. Massimiliano Alioto's pursuit of an expressionist landscape painting tending toward the informal, places the sea at the center. Observation of the tides and the motion of the waves provides the painter with a pretext for creating a pictorial style intensely vibrant.

All this is based on a perceptive exercise in which Alioto begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to his highly personal sensibility. Thus, "Marina" almost definitively loses all contact with phenomenal reality, translating into a pure transposition of pictorial matter and gesture. Indeed, Massimiliano Alioto seeks to capture the impression of the object, but this leads him to completely disintegrate the form and translate his perception directly into pictorial gesture. In this painting, the artist is able to breathe life into a chromatic material that seems alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving. In the intensity of the colors that merge in a vital organism like that of the sea, existence pulsates in bright and sudden flashes.

Massimiliano Alioto was born in Brindisi in 1972. In 1994, he began exhibiting his work around Italy, from the historic literary café Giubbe Rosse in Florence to important galleries and public spaces in Rome and Milan. In 2003, he participated in the IV Cairo Communication Prize at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan, and in 2004, he had his first exhibition in New York at Scope Art. From 2004 to 2007, he collaborated with the Di Giovanni Bonelli gallery. Since 2007, Massimiliano Alioto has collaborated with Italian Factory in Milan and, supported by critics and journalists such as Luca Beatrice, Chiara Canali, Duccio Trombadori, Angelo Crespi, and Vittorio Sgarbi, has produced important exhibitions and publications, culminating in 2013, when he participated in the 55th International Art Exhibition – the Venice Biennale, Pavilion of the Syrian Arab Republic, curated by Duccio Trombadori.

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