Alessandro Butera

Alessandro Butera: A Life in Art, between Commerce, Creation, and Global Success
Alessandro Butera's story is one of a passion that has been able to transform itself and find new ways of expression. As journalist and writer Gianluca Tantillo recounted in his article "The fairy tale of the baker from Brancaccio who became an artist" (Balarm), Butera began as a baker. But before dedicating himself completamente to artistic creation, Butera gained fundamental experience: starting in 1992, and for 22 anni, he worked as a high-level art dealer, operating throughout Italy.
This long parenthesis in the art trade was not a "detour", but an essential part of his training. It allowed him to get to know important artists closely, to study their techniques, to understand the dynamics of the market.
In 2014, the passion for art became uncontainable. Butera decided to create, not just to sell. He began to paint and sculpt, self-taught, but with a base of knowledge and experience that few artists can boast.
His research turned towards the Spazialism of Lucio Fontana. Butera defines himself as "a spatialist with the need, from time to time, to liberate instinctiveness through informal abstraction". This is why, alongside the spatialist works of th...

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November 2015 Palazzo Carducci Palermo

December 2016 Castello di Carini (Pa) with the patronage of the municipality

August 2016 Trabia (Pa) Parish hall of the mother church with the patronage of the municipality

September 2016 Galleria Scafidi at Villa Niscemi in collaboration with the municipality of Palermo