ConTatto_5
Oil on linen
60 x 120 cm
Year 2024

I feel it powerful, deep, magical, intimate.
I feel like I'm getting lost in this embrace too.
That of a friend, a lover, a sister, a woman who has become a child again. Aren't we all?

Each of my paintings is born from an idea. The idea then turns into a photograph, which I take myself, after choosing the subject, a person I know and who is part of my life. And the photograph finally turns into a painted work of art, passing through my eyes and my hands, which translate and modify during the process.
From the idea to the painting there are many changes, second thoughts, emotions. Moments of strong inspiration and moments of despair.

Some say: what's the point of a realistic painting when a photograph would be enough?
And I answer: the day a photo is enough to represent my inner world I will abandon this profession.

The works must be seen live, with curious eyes that love to discover hidden details and scroll the canvas with avidity, without judgments but only transport and sensations, whether positive or negative.

An ambitious project that the artist has carried in her heart for years, after a long personal research that led her to understand her priorities and her means of expression: the human figure.
In fact, beloved subjects, hands of loved ones, faces and expressions that have left their mark on her path recur in Alessandra's works.
But what interests her most is precisely CONTACT, both as a single word and as separate words, always part of the same universe.
This collection wants to take you into the artist's intimate world, in search of "fingers that sink" into the flesh, of a contact between people that has been lost, between lovers, brothers, sisters, friends and memories.
ConTatto is letting yourself be wrapped, embraced, held, transported.

With an American oak frame.
Dimensions complete with frame: 64 x 124 x 4 cm