Alessio Privitera

REVIEW BY ALICE DE VECCHI
The tradition of the urban landscape in contemporary art history has many examples, among the most famous one of Mario Sironi. The leaden atmosphere, gloomy view of the city at night and in its most degraded and desolate suburbs, refer to a metropolis as huge disturbing and impersonal machine in which man has waived its social role succumbing to alienation determined by a modern industrialized society. Cinema has tapped into these urban settings stored in tank of images of memory when he had need to create backdrops distressing stories of replicating or men-zombie survivors of an ‘apocalypse subway’ In Blade Runner and 1997: Escape from New York, an elephantine city, slow and heavy , moves under the skin of history with its heavy body of rubble, dark corners and remnants of post-humanity

The works of Alessio Privitera series of ‘Personal city’, in my eyes, evoke this atmosphere of these abandoned cities to a destiny of degradation where man is not oversees the urban everyday life anymore.

This is what my eyes see: buildings and deserted streets, giant robot-men who advance leaving behind a trail of destruction, planes flying over the dark suburbs , almost as if the vision of these contaminated ...

Psychological Degree