Alex Urso. Painting Clouds

Painting Clouds is the solo show by Alex Urso, which officially inaugurates the new exhibition space THEPÒSITO Art Space in Narni Scalo, Umbria, a project conceived in 2023 by Lorenzo Rubini, art dealer and curator. The exhibition ideally starts from the homonymous series Painting Clouds, created by the artist between 2021 and 2022, which is going to remodulates the space of the new Umbrian gallery introducing a production never presented to the public before.
In Painting Clouds, Urso deals in a personal way with the delicate theme of the artist's 'work', here understood not as creative research, but as an activity of sustenance, a task that the artist is called to carry out in order to carry out their own research. The series becomes the basis for analyzing, and in some way criticize, the social preconception that the artist is still associated with that figure - romantic and dreamer - who lives exclusively of their passion. This conviction runs the risk of becoming a prejudice against the artists themselves, reducing them to their own parody.

Alex Urso (Civitanova Marche, 1987). Multidisciplinary artist, he graduated in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His interests are transversal, as well as the techniques used in his projects, from installation to collage to the use of augmented reality. He has exhibited at Casa Testori (Milan), Fondazione Brugnatelli (Milan), Studio 87 (Valletta), Magacin Gallery (Belgrade), Italian Institute of Culture in Cracow, Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Monopol Gallery (Warsaw), Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (London), Entropia Gallery (Breslau), Palazzo Malipiero (Venice). From 2012 to 2019 he's lived in Warsaw, carrying on his artistic research and dealing with curatorship. Among the institutions with which he has collaborated in recent years: Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Italian Institute of Culture in Warsaw, Polish Pavilion at the 16° Venice Biennale - International Architecture Exhibition, Benetton Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute. In 2017 he was co-curator of La Biche Biennale, defined by The Guardian as "the smallest art biennial in the world", hosted on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. Since 2014 he's part of the editorial team of Artribune. He is director and curator of FIUTO Art Space.