Alessandro Angeletti
ANGELETTI 1975 – 2022

Description

A rich and fruitful fifty-year career distinguishes the variegated career of the artist Alessandro Angeletti. Born in Rome, he enrolled in 1963 at the art school in via di Ripetta, where he had, among others, Lorenzo Gigotti, Diego Pettinelli and Franco Cannilla as teachers. After graduating from artistic maturity, he subsequently attended the Faculty of Architecture. His artistic imprinting took place in Rome in the 1960s and for many years he signed his works with the pseudonym “Xangô”.
From the beginning of his activity he has been interested in the “fragment”, understood both as a paper tear and as a pictorial fragment or other, because in it he saw a possible both visible and sensitive reconstruction of a desired and imagined unity. He has declined this need, over the decades, in various ways: from the collage, tearing and assemblage, of the first period (1975-1985), to the subsequent pictorial fragments of the life of our cities (1985-2000) influenced by reading the book by Alfred L Yarbus “Eye Movement and Vision” (Plenum Press, New York, 1967), up to the recent fragments of an astrological language.