ARTISTS Alberto La Tassa

Alberto La Tassa

Alberto La Tassa
Padua, 1986
Lives and works between Venice and Miami
Alberto La Tassa trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and grew up in a family with a deep-rooted artistic tradition. From a very young age he developed a natural relationship with visual expression, exploring different techniques and languages. Since 2010 he has exhibited in Italy and abroad, participating in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Asia. The constant crossing of different places and cultures fuels a cosmopolitan sensibility that orients his work beyond any stylistic and geographical boundaries.

The changing shape
Alberto La Tassa’s painting practice was born from a rigorous construction of the image: drawing, glazes and material stratifications shape the figure with anatomical precision. This solid structure is accompanied by interventions that alter its contours, generating surfaces in continuous transformation.
Alongside painting, the artist uses drawing and mixed techniques to modulate density and rhythm, expanding the evocative possibilities of the work. Bodies and symbols go through a constant metamorphosis, inviting the viewer to a gaze that oscillates between recognition and imagination.

Figures, absences, possibilities
His figures, often almost angelic, inhabit “places not places”, suspended spaces that belong more to the mental dimension than to the geographical one. The absence of the face, recurring in various works, is not a subtraction but an opening: the face is temporary, not always functional to the narrative. Absence thus becomes a gateway to the imagination, a space in which “not knowing” activates the gaze of the observer.
Each painting was born as an autonomous work: more than series, the artist develops cycles, in which each work maintains its own identity and resembles no other. Reflection on the work often occurs after its creation, in a process in which intuition and thought chase each other.

Nudity, dress, symbol
In La Tassa’s work, nudity is a symbol of purity and formal perfection: all bodies are bearers of beauty. At the same time, the dress introduces mysticism and mystery, becoming a narrative and identity element.
The animals, present in various works, take on a silent symbolic value: natural guides, elegant and timeless figures, appear as signs that refer to a deeper and more intuitive dimension of reality.

Transformation and knowledge
For Alberto La Tassa, art is transformation: a process capable of exorcising discomfort and converting it into an image. Works such as “Discovery” and the cycle “Prometheus” explicitly recall the theme of discovery and knowledge: pushing oneself beyond one’s limits, bringing fire as a symbolic act of awareness.

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ARTISTS Alessandro Valeri

Alessandro Valeri

Alessandro Valeri lives and works between Paris and Rome, where he has a studio at Pastificio Cerere, the cradle of the “Nuova Scuola Romana” (Achille Bonito Oliva, 1984). He studied at the Istituto di Stato per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome between the late 1980s and early 1990s.

His research develops through various materials and techniques: photography, painting, drawing, writing, sculpture, neon, electronics, video, sound design, advertising, and installations. Classical and innovative techniques blend together, creating an ever-evolving, ultra-contemporary creative journey with a critical focus on reality, which he continuously interrogates, investigates, and challenges.

His work is driven by a profound desire for creative and social participation and sharing, aimed at generating change in both individual and collective consciousness.

He has also expressed his artistic inspiration in the field of advertising and social communication, signing campaigns for major national and international brands and winning some of the most prestigious awards in the sector (2001–2010).

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In the heart of San Lorenzo, Pastificio Cerere is one of the symbolic locations of contemporary Roman art. A former industrial factory from the early 20th century, in the 1980s it became a reference point for artists who transformed the abandoned spaces into studios and workshops, giving rise to the Scuola di San Lorenzo (School of San Lorenzo) and a new creative language.
Today, Pastificio continues to be a hub for artistic research. Among the artists working there is Alessandro Valeri, who chose this historic building for his studio. His studio interacts with the industrial memory of the place, becoming an environment for visual and conceptual experimentation, where photography, symbolic art, and narrative intertwine.
The Pastificio Cerere thus remains a living place, where past and present meet, and Valeri’s vision contributes to renewing its creative identity every day.