Alessandro Bazan

Born in Palermo in 1966. Lives in Palermo

Since his exhibitions in the early 1990s, Alessandro Bazan has been elaborating a synthetic and highly expressive language that draws on both the tradition of painting and other more pop aspects of visual culture, comics, or film (especially cinema noir), and, in doing so, manages to be both extremely refined and vernacular. Most of his paintings depict a dazed and indolent, sometimes grotesque, sometimes melancholic day-to-day. Men and women move about household interiors, improbable forests, or beaches, painted in quick brushstrokes with bright contrasting colors. Other recurrent themes and subjects reflect the artist's passion for jazz, the music that, in all of its deviations and improvisations, comes the closest to the way he paints.