Alessandro Piras

I am Alessandro Piras, a self-taught painter. I began painting as a teenager, almost out of necessity — a way to move through difficult moments, to give shape to something that words could not contain. I stopped for years. I built a career as a graphic designer and illustrator, work I love but that unfolds on commission — within the boundaries of others' visions. Toward the end of the 2000s, I felt the need to return to making images for myself alone. From that freedom, my current painting practice was born. My work moves between two opposite poles: the explosive energy of gesture, color as physical force — and silence, light, contemplation. These are not contradictions: they are two faces of the same search. In the chaotic paintings, I set myself free. In the quiet ones, I find myself again. I draw from contemporary images — video, cinema, advertising — but also from German Romanticism and its capacity to transform nature into something transcendent. What unifies all my work is the primal need to paint — not as a craft, but as a way of living.
RUSH is my body of work dedicated to sport — racehorses, greyhounds, football, American football. I did not paint these subjects because I love sport. I painted them because sport is color. ...

Polytechnic School of Design - Milan, Italy
High School for Languages - Misano Adriatico, Italy