ALEX DORICI DIARIO DI VIAGGIO
The exhibition space Buchmann Lugano presents Saturday 24 October from 1 pm the solo show entitled “Travel diary" by the artist Alex Dorici (Lugano, * 1979)
If up to now Dorici's best known artistic language was represented by installations in dialogue with architecture and urban space, thanks to this exhibition we will be able to deepen a more intimate work of the artist who for the first time presents a series of figurative works .
These are ceramic tiles made in different sizes from 2012 to today with the technique of grattage: the images thus created tell us about contemporaneity through a sort of travel diary, from which the title of the exhibition derives, thanks to the sometimes ironic, sometimes pungent gaze of the artist.
Taking a cue from the salient facts of current history or from some famous masterpieces such as Picasso's Guernica or Leonardo's Last Supper, Dorici gives us his reading of the events analyzed by his critical eye.
The artist's decision to present this new type of works certainly also coincides with the problematic time we are experiencing, in particular due to Covid 19 which has completely changed our way of living and relating and which is repeatedly represented in the works exposed.
Alex Dorici has exhibited in many institutions in the Canton of Ticino including Casa Rusca in Locarno (2018), Museo Villa Pia in Porza, (2017), Limonaia, Villa Saroli, Lugano (2012). He has participated in several group exhibitions in Switzerland including: Biennale Bregaglia (2020), Triennale of contemporary sculpture of Bex (2020), Begegnungen (2019), Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhügel in Chur (2019). There are numerous permanent installations: NeuralRope # 1. Inside an Artificial Brain, created with Luca Gambardella at the Besso pedestrian tunnel, Lugano Stazione FFS (2019), Portugal al cubo # 729, Scuola Media di Caslano (2019), Installation Rope 300 meters Light, Torre del Capitano, Morcote (2016 ), Installation ROPE 250 light, Punto Città, Lugano-Pregassona (2015).
In 2018 he received the "Artist in Gallery" award of the ArteLaguna international contemporary art competition in Venice with relative exhibition in 2019 at the Fernando Santos Gallery in Porto while in 2014 the prestigious Bally’s Artist Award.
For further informations:
Buchmann Lugano
Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano
From Tuesday to Friday 13.00 - 18.00
Saturday by appointment
Lo spazio espositivo Buchmann Lugano presenta sabato 24 ottobre a partire dalle ore 13.00 la mostra intitolata “Diario di viaggio” dell’artista Alex Dorici (Lugano, *1979).
Se fino ad oggi il linguaggio artistico di Dorici più conosciuto era rappresentato da installazioni in dialogo con l’architettura e lo spazio urbano, grazie a questa esposizione potremo approfondire un lavoro più intimo dell’artista che per la prima volta presenta una serie di opere figurative.
Si tratta di piastrelle in ceramica realizzate in diverse dimensioni dal 2012 ad oggi con la tecnica
del grattage: le immagini così realizzate ci raccontano la contemporaneità attraverso una sorta di diario di viaggio, da cui deriva appunto il titolo della mostra, grazie allo sguardo a volte ironico, a volte pungente dell’artista.
Prendendo spunto dai fatti salienti della storia attuale o da alcuni celebri capolavori come la Guernica di Picasso o l’Ultima Cena di Leonardo, Dorici ci restituisce la sua lettura degli eventi analizzati dal suo occhio critico.
La decisione dell’artista di presentare questa nuova tipologia di opere coincide certamente anche con il problematico periodo che stiamo vivendo, in particolare a causa del Covid 19 che ha completamente modificato il nostro modo di vivere e di relazionarci e che più volte viene rappresentato nelle opere esposte.
Alex Dorici ha esposto in molte istituzioni del Canton Ticino tra cui Casa Rusca a Locarno (2018), Museo Villa Pia a Porza, (2017), Limonaia, Villa Saroli, Lugano (2012). Ha partecipato a diverse mostre collettive in Svizzera tra cui: Biennale Bregaglia (2020), Triennale di scultura contemporanea di Bex (2020), Begegnungen (2019), Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhügel a Coira (2019). Numerose sono le sue installazioni permanenti: NeuralRope#1. Inside an Artificial Brain, realizzata con Luca Gambardella presso il tunnel pedonale di Besso, Lugano Stazione FFS (2019), Portugal al cubo #729, Scuola Media di Caslano (2019), Installation Rope 300 meters Light, Torre del Capitano, Morcote (2016), Installation ROPE 250 light, Punto Città, Lugano-Pregassona (2015).
Nel 2018 ha ricevuto il premio “Artist in Gallery” del concorso internazionale d’arte contemporanea ArteLaguna di Venezia con relativa mostra nel 2019 presso la Galeria Fernando Santos di Porto mentre nel 2014 il prestigioso premio d’artista svizzero Bally.
Per maggiori informazioni:
Buchmann Lugano
Via della Posta 2, CH-6900 Lugano
Da martedì a venerdì 13.00 – 18.00
Sabato su appuntamento
Alex Dorici
Born in 1979 in Lugano from an Italo-Portuguese family. He studied at the artistic high school G. Terragni, Como, at the SUPSI, Lugano, and the Accademia Aldo Galli, Como where in 2005 he obtained his degree in etching and painting. He worked for 5 years in Paris. He lives and works in Lugano.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Special award “Artist in Gallery”, international competition Arte Laguna Prize, Venice
2017 Honorable Mention by the Académie de Lettres et Arts Luso-Suísse
for the spread and development of Portuguese culture abroad
2015 First prize for the realization of the work Installation Rope 125 meters Light
Punto Città Pregassona, Città di Lugano
2014 The Bally Foundation for Culture has named Alex Dorici as Bally Artist of the Year
The CULT TV program of the Radio Televisione della Svizzera Italiana (RSI), which oversees
cultural and artistic promotion nominates Alex Dorici as its: "Artist Cult 2013"
2004 2nd place, Vittorio Viviani Prize, Milan
2nd prize at the Biennale d'incisione, Como
2003 1st prize with the short film “Saudade Itamar” in the video section of t he Angelo
Tenchio Study Competition, Como
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2019 NeuralRope#1. Inside an Artificial Brain, in collaboration with Luca Maria Gambardella
pedestrian tunnel Lugano-Besso
Portugal al cubo #729, Scuola Media Caslano
2018 Scotch Drawing White #21032018 urban intervention realized
at the Valsangiacomo Centre Chiasso
2017 Portugal al cubo #245, Restaurant Agua, Lugano
2016 Azulejos Light Line #844, ex Buchmann Galerie, Agra
Installation Rope 300 meters Light, Torre del Capitano, Morcote
2015 Installation ROPE 250 light, Punto Città, Pregassona, Città di Lugano
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Linhas de Produçao, Centro de Arte Contemporanea Graça Morais, Bragança, Portugal
2021 Geometric Series, Buchmann Lugano
2020 Diario di Viaggio, Buchmann Lugano
Pop Up Room Blue Line, Lugano
2019 Dois Quartos 2/4, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto
2018 Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno
2017 Portugal al cubo #729, Buchmann Lugano
#9 Rooms, Art Foundation Erich Lindenberg / Museeum Villa Pia, Porza
2015 Pointillism Garden Balls #2, Buchmann Lugano
Cromie, personal exhibition of etchings and prints from the Parisian period 2005-2010
at Panizza exhibition room, "Il Brunitoio", Ghiffa
2014 3D light cube, Galleria Arrivada, Chur
Save the Whale, installation realized in occasion of the Longlake Urban Art Festival, Lugano
2013 Scotch Drawing #07072013, urban intervention realized in the great hall of the Università
della Svizzera italiana, promoted by Arte Urbana Lugano on the occasion
of Street Art Longlake Festival, Lugano
Videoinstallazione extra muros, curated by Riccardo Lisi
Spazio d’arte contemporanea La Rada Locarno in collaboration with i2A, Vico Morcote
2012 Social Implosion, curated by Michele Balmelli, Artelier, Lugano
2011 Stiamo lavorando per voi, curated by Valeria Donnarumma and Arte Urbana Lugano
Exhibition space Lab-Comacina, Lugano
2010 Installazione modulare # 1000 Color, curated by Marcel Scheidegger work commissioned
by graphic arts industry Fratelli Roda, Taverne
2008 Cube de la paix, curated by the cultural services of the city of Malakoff, Paris
Installazione modulare #664, curated by Hervé Gérland, ex Cinema Marcel Puyol, Paris
2007 Installazione modulare #1140 moduli, Artelier,Lugano
2006 Filosofia della forma, curated by Vítor Nogueira and Alexandro Castro
Centro culturale Vila Real e Bragança, Portogallo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 SINOPIA, SINOPSIA, SINAPSI, Casa degli Artisti, Milan
Cabane, La Nef, Le Noirmont
2021 Nach Rauschen, Chur
Vorüber_Gehend Idylle und Künstlichkeit,
7. Biennale Weiertal 2021, Winterthur
Dietikon Lichtkunst Erleben 2021, Dietikon
2020 Biennale Bregaglia 2020, Bondo-Promontogno, Val Bregaglia
Bex & Arts, Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture, Bex
2019 Begegnungen 2019, Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhügel, Chur
2018 neoscope 18 - Junge Kunst reflektiert zofiscope 1974, installation Azulejo Light Line
performance Scotch Drawing, Kunsthaus Zofingen
Jetzt Kunst no°6, Max Frisch Bad, Zurich
Lo spazio ritrovato, Rassegna d’arte pubblica, Morcote
Sm’arte 2018, Street Art Festival, Braganca, Portugal
2017 Ceramica / Céramique / Keramik, with Tony Cragg, Alberto Garutti
Martin Disler Bettina Pousttchi, Thomas Virnich, Véronique Arnold, Buchmann Galerie, Agra
2016 Un percorso d’arte, Public Art, Morcote
2015 Jungkunst, Container museum, Winterthur
Flowers for you, Buchmann Galerie Agra
Nulla dies sine linea, con Zimoun , Arlette Ochsner, Monika Feucht , Maja Rieder,
Kunsthaus, Zofingen
2014 Seguire il filo del discorso, with Marco D’Anna (photographs)
Alberto Garutti (artwork), Buchmann Galerie Agra
It’s About Time, curated by Daniela Hermosilla, Alte Kindl Brauerei, Berlin
2013 Artelier 14°. Group exhibition by Alex Dorici, Luigi Boccadamo
Daniel Kemeny and Andreas Fischbach, curated by Michele Balmelli, Artelier, Lugano
Premio Giovani artisti 2013, Fondazione Gino a Gianna Macconi with M.A.X Museo, Chiasso
L’AM. L’arte della memoria, curated by EGO Gallery and Ticino off Villa Ambrosetti, Gentilino
Lightness, curated by Paola Silvia Ubiali
Galleria Marella arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo
Arspolis #3, contemporary art event in the city, curated by Michele Balmelli, Lugano
2012 Jungkunst, curated by Martin Landolt, Halle 52 Winterthur
KunstNacht, curated by Richard Tisserand, Kreuzlingen
Lightness Collective Show, curated by Maria Grazia Lurgo, MyaLurgo Gallery, Lugano
2011 Going Public, curated by Paolo Bianchi, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich
Open Gallery #2, Coldretor, curated by Riccardo Lisi, Artelier, Lugano
2008 Paristoutcourt, 6° International Short Film Festival, Paris
L’Atelier Contrepoint curated by Matej Longyka, Maat Gallery, Paris
2007 Paris 1927/2007, Atelier 17- Contrepoint, International Engraving Exhibition
L' Arte e il Torchio, Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona, Italia
Biennial of engraving, City of Evora, Portugal