Alessandro Curadi

If you would ask Alessandro Curadi if he was first attracted by music or painting, he would be amazed himself and surprised to verify the simultaneity of these two passions or needs, at the point that they have assumed one way only, that’s why he follows and catches facets of the sound of music, and tells the music to the sound of facets, and this happens even in the portraits not related to musicians, where you can perceive a musical tendency, a prosody to the rhythm of the color or the text. Music and paintings speak the same language, they travel in the same direction, such that it seems that you can almost hear these musical paintings. On this track of symbiotic exchange there is almost no difference: the saxophone’s vibrations and those of a deep blue, the warm touch of a guitar and a sunny yellow, but also stronger and uncommon emotional combinations, that make vibrating and alive these notes and color harmony, Curadi describes and paints with competent minimalism, almost suggesting the lines, persistently chasing what is escaping, that you can get with the emotion only. Exploring the lines of a face and its inner roads, the hidden corners, is like traveling inside the man, in the events of the past, in the plot of the soul. ...

Alessandro Curadi was born in 1967 in Milano, where he still lives and works. He attended the illustration and graphic course at Castello Sforzesco Art School in Milan. In 1999 he became a member of the A.I.A. – Italian Association of Watercolorists. Since 2000 he devoted himself to the live portraiture of performers during concerts. This peculiarity to be able to paint in uncertain conditions in terms of light and space, in the middle of a crowd, in almost acrobatic poses to keep in balance sheets, water, and colors, is the author’s style that makes Curadi’s work unique and unmistakable. As a “pictorial reporter” and music enthusiast, Alessandro Curadi portrayed the most important musicians of the international jazz and rock landscape, cooperating also with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali of the Dal Verme Theatre in Milan, as an illustrator for the theatre program of the classical music in 2007/2008. He designed the CD covers of the singers Max De Aloe and Nicola Mingo. Together with Mario Marzi, the first saxophone of the Filarmonica Della Scala, he created several illustrations for the book “Il Saxofono” (Zecchini Edition). In 2013 his portraits of Franz DiCioccio, Patrick Djivas and Franco Mussida painted live at the Lugan...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
• Hotel di Villa Carlotta Belgirate - Lago Maggiore October 30th-November 24th 2002 - Fall in Jazz festival
• Umbria Jazz Winter 9 Orvieto – December 28th 2001 – January 1st 2002 Palazzo dei Sette - Sala degli Archi
• Umbria Jazz Winter 10 Orvieto – December 28th 2002 – January 1st 2003 Palazzo dei Sette
• Exhibition at the Association of Journalists during the concerts Jazz & Press 2003
• Ritratti in musica” during Settembre in Jazz – 2003 Rozzano (MI) – September 8th / 30th
• Doctor Sax - I grandi volti del Jazz - Sala Terrazzo del Teatro Dal Verme October the 8th – November the 12th 2003
• Jazz in watercolors Soul Festival Jazz May 15th – 22nd 2004 Bisceglie (BA)
• Exhibit in July 20th - 30th 2004 during Villa Celimontana Festival – Roma
• Umbria Jazz Winter 12 - Orvieto – December 28th 2004 – January 2nd 2005 - Palazzo dei Sette
• Umbria Jazz Winter 13 - Orvieto – December 28th 2005 – January 2nd 2006 - Palazzo dei Sette
• Exhibit July the 20th – 30th 2006 a Villa Celimontana – Roma
• Note di colore, 20 anni a Villa Arconati, Villa Arconati Festival 2008
• Watercolors palazzo dell’Arsenale - ISEO JAZZ 2008
• Note di colore Castello di Otranto torre Matta - Otranto Jazz Festival July 2009
• Galleria Amstel - Mi...