Afan Alessandro Fantini

Alessandro Fantini is a selfmade-artist devoted to experimentation of medianic beauty through mixing several media (video, music, painting, drawing, writing, acting). Therefore he defines himself a "multimedianic artist".
His first attempt in creating his own aesthetic parallel universe was during his childhood, when he was intrigued by drawing comic strips and tales inspired to Disney world. Over the years his passion about mysteries and gothic atmospheres pushed him to search other ways of self-expression through using water colour on board and oil on canvas. He was fascinated by the link between sound and images when someone let him use a camcorder allowing him to spend days filming stormy skies, eclipses, old photos mixed with frames of giant eyes and his own body sections. His first paintings were influenced by the gloomy and dreamlike climate of the surreal period of Dali. At the same time he developed a vionary literary dimension writing romance and novels which resemble a mixture of d'Annunzio's obsession for lushious details and sophistication and the distorted abomination realms of Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Sheridan Le Fanu and Maupassant. He wrote his first 200 pages romance at 14 on a school notebook. After the long per...

First class honours degree at the Gabriele d'Annunzio university with a thesis about history of contemporary art.

2014 - "JE NE SAIS QUOI" solo display, Buyonz gallery, 38th street, New York City, NY, (USA).

2013 - "PAINTED SOUND" group show, Flower Pepper gallery, Old Pasadena, CA(USA)

2012 - "GREEN BLOOD" group exhibition, Dorothy Circus Gallery, ROME

2010 - "Premio D'Annunzio" group exhibition, PESCARA

2007 - "ART in MIND" exhibition, Brick Lane Gallery, LONDON

2006 - Group exhibition - "IO" -Auditorium Diocleziano - LANCIANO (CH)

2006 - Solo display- Turin International Book Fair- TURIN

2005 - Solo display - "Il viaggio dell'Atman" - Palazzo Ferri- ATESSA (CH)

2004 - Group exhibition Palazzo ex-liceo classico- LANCIANO (CH)

2004 - Group exhibition "Lanciano nel fumetto" - Auditorium Diocleziano- LANCIANO (CH)

2003 - Solo display - "Kryogena" Palazzo della Provincia - PESCARA

2003- Group exhibition Castello Ducale- CASOLI(CH)

2002 - Solo display -happening "Opera Ville Diodati" Pozzo delle Arti - PESCARA

2000 - Solo display - "Mirada Fuerte" Sala consiliare - ATESSA (CH)

1998 - Solo display "D'Annunzio visio picta" -Eremo Dannunziano S.VITO (CH)

1998 - Solo display Neohypnerotomachia pingendi Palazzo Giallo - CRECCHIO (CH)

1997 - Solo display Fati Fosfenici Ex-chiesa S.Gaetano ATESSA (CH) ...