Alessandro Neckels

Q & A with Alessandro Neckels (excerpt)
Alice Shay (curator) in conversation with Alessandro Neckels

AS: Where do you find your ideas for your pieces?
AN: In my mind
"¨AS: How much of an influence do you think society has on your work?
AN: Society influences my work because I live in this society, and I want to represent and criticize all the wrong aspects of our "civilization", in this sense my work is a political work. It's a struggle against a  predatory and self-destructing society. I try to show what is being done against nature; and with "nature" I mean not only our natural environment but also our bodies and souls, which are also going to be polluted.
"¨AS: How do you think society has influenced your identity?
AN: Society has tried to influence my identity but has not completely succeeded. Again, society in our world is an exploiting system (not defined by ideology, but by its squalid objects), which tends to uniform and flat out all differences between human beings, which are so important in order to be free and intellectually active.
"¨AS: Do you illustrate any dichotomies of identity in your work? If so, how?
AN: My work is a continuous paradox. It's difficult to differentiate between the two sides.
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2006-2013 Painting and sculpture classes (acrylics, clay) at the atelier of painter Marisa Vanetti

2006 Video and filmmaking course at OfficinaFilm, Milan

2004 Scriptwriting workshop organized by screenwriter Alessandro Manitto

1997-2004 Art classes of nude painting and drawing with life models at the atelier of painter Enrico Lui

1997 Professional photography course at the Italian Institute of Photography, Milan

1995-1996 Acrylic painting workshops at the atelier of painter Fernanda Fedi

1980-1985 Milan Polytechnicum - Engineering

1975-1979 German School of Milan

2021 PGI Collective - PGI Gallery - Poschiavo

2008 Collective exhibition “Dystopia”, Studio Iroko Gallery, Milan (Italy)

2007 Collective exhibition “Scekere’”, Studio Iroko Gallery, Milan (Italy)

2002 Collective exhibition “Viola Odorata L. “ Center for Italian Language and Culture, l Paris (France)

2001 Collective exhibition “Il Mare d’Inverno” , Villa Ricotti , Arese (Italy)

2001 Collective exhibition “Le Violette profumano tutto l’anno per Maria Luigia”, Banca Popolare di Milano, Parma (Italy)

2001 Collective exhibition “A Firenze son Giaggioli” , Banca Popolare di Milano, Florence (Italy)

2000 Collective exhibition “Le Meraviglie del Giardino”, Banca Popolare di Milano, Bologna (Italy)

2000 Collective exhibition “San Celso in Fiore” - Basilica of San Celso, Milan (Italy)

1999 Solo Exhibition - “Recent Works” - Vigna del Siolo - Siolo Center, Arese (Italy)