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).
Main exhibitions include:
“Il circo, iperbole della vita” (A. Valeri, curated by Giorgio Calcara) / “Nella mente del maestro” (S. Dalì, curated by Beniamino Levi) Museo Civico di Modena (2025)
“Tra mito e sacro” Museo Carlo Bilotti Rome (2025)
“Universal Keyboard” MAG Padua (2024)
“Apnée” Galerie Placido Paris (2023)
“Il vuoto” Magazzini del sale Venice (2022)
“Foto GeneSi” IN HABITAT Gallery Verona (2022)
“Eyes Wide Shot” ARTCO Gallery Lecce (2022)
“Contaminazioni” Saraceno Gallery Rome (2021)
“Tra sogno e realtà” Museo Civico di Rieti (2020)
“An Iron Ring” Museo MAXXI Rome (2020)
“Apparato inconcreto” Museo MACRO Rome (2019)
“Next Stop” Video Città Rome (2018)
“Una sola possibilità” Museo MACRO Rome (2017)
“L’instabilità degli oggetti” Bologna MAMBO Artefiera (2017)
“Lasciami entrare” Museo MACRO Rome (2016)
“Sepphoris” 56th Venice Biennale (2015)
“Stai con me” Medio Area Gallery (2014)
“Panorama” Museo PAN Naples (2013)
“Circo” Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea Rome (2013)
“Elettroshot” Cartiere Binda Milan, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (2012)
“da – un’intuizione teorica” / “La Transavanguardia italiana” Palazzo Reale Milan, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (2011)
“Esplorazioni” Associazione Futuro Rome, curated by Ludovico Pratesi (2000)
“Progetto Oreste Cinema” 48th Venice Biennale (1999)
Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Ex-mattatoio of Rome, curated by Jannis Kounellis (1998)
“Campagna d’Italia” Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (1995)
In 2023, with the triptych of the neon artwork Universal Keyboard, he became part of the permanent collection of the VAF Foundation.
In 2021, with the neon artwork Life Milk Dead, part of Universal Keyboard, he entered the permanent collection of the Museo MACRO / Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Rome under the supervision of the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali.
EXHIBITION NOW
BETWEEN MYTH AND SACRED.
WORKS FROM THE CAPITOLINE COLLECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
April 17, 2025
September 14, 2025
ALESSANDRO VALERI
“Universal keyboard”
Milk has always represented the most sacred and spiritual element for human beings, the Chthonic deities, the symbolism of milk and suckling goddesses, the myriads of sacred and spiritual rites, these and more are lost in time and will live with us and our stay in this universe. Universal Keyboard is the universal keyboard of the human palimpsest.”
CIRCO IPERBOLE DELLA VITA
Collateral exhibition of the artist Alessandro Valeri at the Salvador Dalí Exhibition “In the Mind of the Master”
April 14, 2025
June 29, 2025
Nuova Ala Palazzo dei musei
Viale Vittorio Veneto
Modena – Italy
COLLECTION
SEPPHORIS
56th Venice Biennale (2015)
The exhibition is made up of fifteen three-by-three-metre canvases, hung from the beams of the atrium which spiral upwards for twenty-five metres, creating a vertigo in which the photographic images, completed by pictorial interventions, tell the story of the orphanage of Sephoris. The installation is accompanied by a video that the artist and the curator shot together in Israel, in the orphanage, creating a composite work between art video, documentary, classic and short film. Sepphoris is accompanied by a bilingual catalog containing the preparatory photographic documentation and the backstage of the video.
SEPPHORIS
56th Venice Biennale – 2015
SEPPHORIS
56th Venice Biennale – 2015
SEPPHORIS
56th Venice Biennale – 2015
SEPPHORIS
56th Venice Biennale – 2015
PANORAMA
Museo Pan, Naples 2013
The core of the exhibition consists of works that represent the historic places in New York frequented by Andy Warhol during his last year of life. These are seductive views of the 80s, full of a contemporaneity that has now disappeared. The images show the urban accumulation of the metropolis with street scenes, crumbling buildings and characters still close in time and memory.
The dynamic faces and bodies photographed by Alessandro Valeri focus on aspects of movement and becoming. They represent an inverted space and time of meaning. They create an almost shamanic effect through pictorial signals dictated by a unique and unrepeatable gesture, which elegantly summarizes the tribal dimension and aesthetic tragedy.
The portraits of Naomi Campbell, Valentino Rossi or the faces of trapeze artists, acrobats, tamers and clowns express another symbolism. They are icons of the collective imagination, escaped from everyday life and the universe of advertising, residual symbols of a world in transformation.
LE ALI
2015