Alessandro Miotti

Alessandro Miotti works within a dialectic between imagination and reality. The visual language he uses in each painting bears no relation to his other works and shows a refracted vision of the imagination. Form is approached from a mythological place and then translated into a progressive series of definitions, with figures and places acting as archetypes within the narrative of the work. Visually, the fulfilment of desire and its denial act in balance, with a semiotics both familiar and unfamiliar, moving away from the everyday towards the borders of the symbolic and the real.

For Miotti, painting is a psychological exploration not only of his own lost childhood memories but also of the lost memories of our collective unconscious. His work is an effort to rediscover them, but memories are constructed and very rarely match real ones; they are reworked and reimagined in the context of what has been lost, only to be found again, changed, distorted, bent, broken, but rarely as they once were.