Alex Folla

Alex Folla is an Italian Contemporary artist who was born in 1980 in Oggiono, Italy. Studied Fine Arts in Brera Academy and in Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. Now he lives and works in Filorera (Alps), Milan and Moscow.

“Alex Folla tackles straightforwardly the key issue of vision in the era of the intrusiveness of images through a series of metaphors. These are metaphors in terms of content (holiness, illness, bodily frailty, fragility, strength) and linguistics (descriptiveness, realism, imagination, relationship between classical composition and contemporary vision, adherence to reality, etc.). His is a work of deconstruction and reconstruction of the sacred traditional imagery-starting, explicitly and openly, from the lesson of Renaissance and Baroque painting, from Michelangelo to Caravaggio -, through as healthy as unsettling a “bath” of reality, which, however, is independent, due to a deliberate poetic and stylistic choice, from any relationship with any idea of photographic reproduction,” says Alessandro Riva.

Alex Folla says: “In my work there’s a crucial difference between photographic realism and pictorial realism. The former reproduces what the camera shot, while the latter – to which It end – reproduces what is necessary. The rest is just suggested to the eye, which - so deceived – views it.”