Alex Munzone

Alex Munzone (was born in Catania, Italy, on October 16th, 1979) is an Italian artist and composer. Lives and works in Catania

Statement

After an illness contracted in 2021 and overcome in 2022 through a long journey of awareness and self-healing, the artist works on the concept of transformation by developing pictorial fragments whose structure can be traced back to the details of the images of the Hubble telescope, details of spaces that trigger a dialogue between the macrocosm and the human dimension. The projects are transformed into real postulates, analytical studies on a hypothetical psychology of the universe which inevitably reflects the psychology of man. The forms and interventions create fractures of meaning crossed by sequences, vertical or horizontal series that follow one another as if to identify the repeated process of facts that characterize human experience. The segments are coded as real "Morse" codes created to trigger a dialogue between man, nature and the universe. In their construction they emerge as places of reflection, deposits of static adaptation, true centers of rational force in continuous dialogue, comparison and clash with the instinct of the generating matrix. The artist selects traces of earth f...

2005 - 2006
Course digital photo, Contemporary photo history, Roma - Italy

2000 - 2005
Course of cultural anthropology of art, Catania - Italy

2000 – 2005
Academy of fine arts
110 cum laude degree with special mention, Catania - Italy

1995 – 2000
Art school, Catania – Italy

1988 - 1995
Drums course and composition, Catania - Italy

*Solo shows

2011
Interventions (4 ways to survive when immersed in water), GAN
Civic Gallery Contemporary Art, Noto (sr) - Italy

2004
The invade man - Akuros gallery, Calcide - Greece


*Group shows

2013
/Welcome Work/ curated by Francesco Lucifora, C.o.C.A. - Center Of Contemporary Art, Modica (sr) - Italy

“Refuse” curated by Roberto D’onorio, Intervention Young space Factory - Macro, Roma - Italy

2011
“Alla ricerca del tempo venduto / il tempo violentato”, curated by Fiorella Fiore, centro di notorietà (ex collegio dei Gesuiti), Noto (sr) - Italy

“Penta”, The Cultural Palace curated by Gaetano Malandrino / Santino Russo, Catania - Italy

2010
Online vote winner in painting - Premio Celeste 2010,
Julia Draganovic and Gabi Scardi, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania - Italy

2009
“Embrionismgroup: Frantumazioni percettive”, exhibition in the photographic laboratory, Catania - Italy

“Embrionismgroup: No Mans Land (Terre di nessuno)”, the Cultural Association ARTinfumo, Catania - Italy.

“20x20 III Edition” - LineaDarte officina creativa, Curated by Gennaro Ippolito and Giovanna Donnarumma, Naples - Italy

2008
“The Timeless Place”, Acadèmie International de Lutèce, Catania - Italy

“Digital in M...