Added Apr 22, 2014
Alessandra 'Alesco' Scotucci
Born in Rome (Italy) on April 17, 1966.
Currently lives and works in Rome.
Alesco is a self-taught painter working primarily in acrylic.
A great passion in travelling, especially Northern Europe and Great Britain, gives her the inspiration for her artwork; that’s why mysterious, gloomy and sometimes mystical atmospheres have become the basic theme of her works.
She likes to represent reality as it is, and as she can see it, whether it is a bunch of ivy or an ocean dive, a bunch of roses or imaginary journey into the depths of the universe…
In recent years, she has been focusing on landscapes using triptychs or polyptychs, and from 1990 onwards, she has only been painting with acrylic colours, sometimes diluted with vinyl glue and very often used homogeneously.
The symbol that fascinates her most is certainly the "spiral", meant as the infinity, it is a cardinal point often present in her paintings, even if in a different form and not always represented explicitly it however binds them one another imperceptibly.
In paintings with subjects such as “Stonehenge” or “The Midnight Solar Phases”, she seeks to impress on the viewer the idea of cyclicity, that has since ancient times had an association with representing the Sun or continuous motion of the stars.
For Alessandra painting is, and will always be a source of energy which helps her to get in touch with her inner self, while resting quietly and sorrowfully in those same delicate brushstrokes imprinted on the canvas.