Born in Naples in 1983, Alessandro Saturno studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where his early research explored gesture through the history and techniques of painting. He moved to Bologna in 2008 and completed his studies two years later at the Accademia di Belle Arti Clementina, with a thesis examining the relationship between mark, image and sound.

His first major solo exhibition was held at Adiacenze in Bologna in 2013. Since then, his work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and projects in Italy and internationally. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as an assistant to painter Maurizio Bottarelli. Since 2018, he has collaborated with ReMida Bologna, a leading centre for educational practice, where he runs workshops and specialises in drawing, painting and three-dimensional art.

For several years, Saturno’s painting has explored the image as a kind of mirage, poised between bodily memory and apparition. The painted surface becomes a space in which the act of looking is brought to the threshold of the visible.

A recent book published by ViaIndustriae Publishing brings together his research into landscape over the past few years.

Alessandro Saturno lives and works in Bologna.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Forme dell’Assenza, Fondazione CREA – Meeting del Mare, Camerota (SA); A Nameless Place, Le Scalze, Naples; Before and After Gravity, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan; The Inner Touch, Labs Gallery, Bologna; Foresta. Pittura Natura Animale, Museo Civico Luigi Varoli, Cotignola (RA); Immemore – Breviario dell’assenza, Spazio Siracusa, Agrigento; Aion – Il tempo del corpo, L’Ariete artecontemporanea, Bologna; L’eclissi dell’occhio, Sala delle Carceri, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples.

Selected Group Exhibitions

L’Oro Blu, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, Pergola (PU); Contaminazione, OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin; Dissolvenze, Palazzo Vescovile, Padua; Dintorni, Palazzo Reggio dei Principi di Campofiorito, Palermo; Wir nennen es Arbeit, Uferhallen, Berlin; Kahuna, Ex Chiesa di San Mattia, Bologna; Dialogo Secondo, Markellos Tower, Aegina; Silent Noise, Space, New York; Biennale Disegno Rimini, Museo della Città, Rimini; Arteam, Officina delle Zattere, Venice; Terzo Rinascimento, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino; Straniamenti, Convento dei Minimi, Roccella Jonica (RC).

Selected group exhibitions include:

– L’Oro Blu, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, Pergola (PU)
– Contaminazione, OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin
– Dissolvenze, Palazzo Vescovile, Padua
– Dintorni, Palazzo Reggio dei Principi di Campofiorito, Palermo
– Wir nennen es Arbeit, Uferhallen, Berlin
– Kahuna, Ex Chiesa di San Mattia, Bologna
– Dialogo Secondo, Torre di Markellos, Aegina
– Silent Noise, Space, New York
– Biennale Disegno Rimini, Museo della Città, Rimini
– Arteam, Officina delle Zattere, Venice
– Terzo Rinascimento, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
– Straniamenti, Convento dei Minimi, Roccella Jonica (RC)