Guido Albanese

Guido Albanese was born in 1968 in Barletta, Puglia, where he still lives and pursues his artistic activity. His current research is dedicated to nature—particularly landscapes and elements extracted from it, such as clouds and water. His creative process is multidisciplinary, drawing on various styles and expressive languages, and integrates painting, photography, with influences from cinematography, digital art, and artificial intelligence.

He is drawn to subjects such as desert regions, mountains, glaciers, volcanoes, and expansive cloudscapes—not tied to real places but generated from his imagination. These compositions are constructed a priori through sketches, studies, drawings, photomontages, 3D environments in CGI, or with the aid of generative AI.

His intent is to evoke primitive environments inspired by profound emotional states in which contemplation, memories, and intuitions converge. Spaces where time and place seem suspended, immersed in surreal atmospheres that allude to the infinite, with a style that oscillates between dreamlike realism, expressionism, and abstraction depending on the medium employed.

MEDIUM AND TECHNIQUES
He mixes and contaminates various expressive languages and disciplines. In his painting, h...

After studying set design at the Fine Arts Academies of Florence and Bari, Guido Albanese completed his education in 1994 with a specialization in set and costume design at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

His professional career began in Paris, where he collaborated as a concept artist with renowned set designer Ezio Frigerio, and continued in Milan alongside other prominent designers. Over time, driven by a desire to broaden his expressive horizons, he turned to the study of computer graphics and rediscovered painting—two fields that would become increasingly central to his artistic research, eventually merging and prevailing in his later development.

In the early 2000s, he began a more conscious and personal aesthetic investigation, experimenting with the combination of traditional artistic techniques and digital tools, with the aim of fostering cross-contamination and new expressive forms. His early influences include Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, and Pop Art. Later, an in-depth study of Renaissance painting and Eastern art led him to a deliberate return to traditional painting, enriched by modern experience and deeply shaped by the formal synthesis and gestural style typical of East Asian ink painting—particularly Chi...

EXHIBITIONS
2005 – Inkiostro, group show, Chiostro di S. Paolo, Ferrara

2006 – L’inquietudine, group show, Milan (Fondazione D’Ars)

2010 – Finalist exhibition, 4th Arte Laguna Prize, Venice

2024 – Finalist exhibition, Be Natural Be Wild, Biella (4th edition)


AWARDS AND PRIZES
2003 – Pavia – Young European Art, Special Award “Chamber of Commerce”

2004 – Celeste Award, 1st Edition, San Gimignano

2004 – National Award for Painting and Sculpture – City of Novara, Merit Plaque

2005 – Mention, Celeste Prize, 2nd Edition, San Gimignano

2006 – Special Prize from the Artistic Direction, City of Novara

2010 – Finalist, 4th Arte Laguna Prize, Photography section

2024 – Finalist, Be Natural Be Wild art competition, Painting section