Zannier Alessandro

Born in Treviso, Italy, in 1971, he lives in Zurich
and Treviso.


Zannier is a young original Italian artist who
applies his creativity to a wide range of fields from
electronic pop music to visual arts.
He has mainly commited himself to musical composition
and record production and he is also a well known
frontman of his musical project Ottodix for which he
creates all the artworks, web site and videoclips.
Trained as a visual artist, in the last few years he
has been working full time on different art projects
merging an expressionist aesthetics with
conceptualist works reflecting the anxiety of our
contemporary society.
The hibrid form of expression between feelings and
mechanics, science, conscience and science fiction
which characterizes his assemblages derives from
Duchamps machine celibataire forming a new
multimediatic world of metaphoric forms.

Born in Treviso, Italy, on 07/08/71, Zannier obtained
an arts high school diploma in 1990, then a diploma in
painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in
1996. From '91 to '94, under the guidance of Ennio
Finzi, a well-known exponent of Italian optical art,
he developed a personal artistic research project
which involved sculpture and pictorial assembly and
was shown in Mestre (Venice) in November '93 at the
Einaudi gallery as part of a group exhibition, Palco
Latino. From this period onward he put intensive
efforts into music with the group OTTODIX which has
won numerous national awards and has released the
albums CORPOMACCHINA and NERO.
Musical work included two theatre projects
together with the director Vincenzo Tripodo.
In the first, Tangos, in 1997 written by
Tripodo and Zannier, he oversaw the scenography, the
music and the choreography, as well as acting as
assistant director, while in the second, Murder
Ballads, he worked
mostly as co-author.
Zannier again exhibited new work in January 2000 in
Treviso (Ca' dei Ricchi) and then in Spring made ALTER
EGO, two solo shows in Hungary, in Pcs and Paks,
where he met the artist Halsz Kroly and Orsol...