Official website of the contemporary Italian artist Alberto Ballocca. Specialized in diachronic approaches on ancient cultures & natural aesthetics.
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‘L’erma’, Clay and Acrylic Resin
Performed during the latest residency at the resort ‘Il Cannito’ in Paestum – Capaccio.
Inspired by the bust of the philosopher Parmenides ( Parco Archeologico di Paestum- Velia )
Socialies, detail.
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
48 x 33 cm
Via Half of Venus
Ark of Knowledge, studio view
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
– 48 x 33 cm
Via Half of Venus
Orama, studio view
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 335 gr
– 40 x 30 cm
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“This relation between my studies about ancient and archaic cultures and my art practices is similar to that between axioms and theorems.
One deduces the other, but it is not explained with words; it is perceived within the body, mind, and spirit…”
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-Like the death of a star-
Alberto Ballocca in conversation with Australian curator Monique Michel.
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“The Pyramids Texts”, detail
Private collection
The arliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in hieroglyphics, these texts were carved on the underground walls and on sarcophagi of Saqqara pyramids.”
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Second work inspired & dedicated to the archeological project Medjehu, Investigating Woodcraft along the Nile.
On view
‘Mitoscopio-m4’ , Mixedmedia on wood.
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Futuristic depiction of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti,
Private collection
‘Rha-Nefertiti’, Mixedmedia on wood panel
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Archaic Egyptian myths cycle of ‘Ennead of Heliopolis’.
On view
‘Geb’, Oil on canvas
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“If nature is ethical, It provides transformation, which is the ability of fire.”
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‘l’Etica del Fuoco’, Clay-based mixedmedia sculpture.
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Studio view, ‘Two Sparks’
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr – 48 x 33 cm
Displaying ancient cultures & natural aesthetics with Colonna Contemporary Gallery. 4 Louella Ct, Wayne Philadelphia. U.S.A.
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For sale on Artnet via Colonna Contemporary Gallery
Studio View
‘Lost Civitas’ & ‘Holograph’, Mixemedia on raw-canvases, 2024
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“Orama in Greek language means ‘Vision’ , Aristotles invented word physiologists to identify people that used to contemplate (envision) Nature aimed to propose and construct the first legislative forms of politics in the ancient Athens city.”
‘Orama’
Series of five works of art through which I investigated natural powers and their relationships between humanity and the divine.
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Inspired by the magical athmospheres of the place & the honorable acquisition of my work on paper ‘Kàtagma’ this last summer by Museo Materiali Minimi d’Arte Contemporanea Capaccio-Paestum (SA) curated by Nuvola Lista, I made an oil version on canvas out of It, aimed to expand the process of transaction from the initial preparatory draft on paper to the approach on canvas.
Discover ’13th Effort’ , a mixedmedia painting on canvas exhibited in Van Der Plas Gallery (New York).
A depicted story that recalls to the ancient myth of the 12 trials of the Greek hero Hercules.
