ALO (artist)

ALO is an Italian artist born in Ancona in 1981. He studied at the faculty of Industrial Design in Florence where he attended a fine art and drawing course. In the early stage of his career, ALO's oil paintings focused on female portraiture and on the representation of human loss and defeat which will become the landmark subject of his "losers" series. After few months, ALO decided to continue his activity working as a self-taught artist. This formation period led him to define his current style based on linear intersections and strong chromatic contrasts. Four years later ALO went back to his native city, Perugia, for his very first solo exhibition "The underdogs show". Influenced by the street art world, ALO decided to reproduce his indoor techniques in the outdoor spaces and started travelling around Europe, in particular to Rome, Milan, Berlin and then to Paris and London, the cities that offered him the biggest "open air canvas". ALO is currently based in London, where he had his first major solo show "Hail to the loser" at Saatchi Gallery, with which he started a continuous collaboration.

Alo's mural in Great Easter Street - London 2013

Art exhibitions

2015 – Pop the Streets, Saatchi Gallery, London

2014 – Hail to the loser, Saatchi Gallery, London[1]

2014 – Project M/6, Urban Nation, Berlin[2][3]

2014 – Collicola On the Wall, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto (Italy)

2013 – Spectrum, Stolen Space Gallery, London

2013 – Winter group show, Stolen Space Gallery, London


Press

Wide Walls, 10 Favourite Urban Art Exhibitions of 2014[4]

Wide Walls, 10 Best graffiti and street art masters from Italy [5]

RNext, A Londra per dipingere su tela e su strada. Con Alo la street art fa il giro del mondo [6]

RNext, Repubblica.it - "NEXT" - Perugia Teatro Pavone Italy[7]

Wide Walls, Hail to the Loser[8]

Artribune, Dalle strade a Saatchi. Per Alo “è accaduto tutto molto in fretta [9]

Auctions

2016 – Urban Art Auction, Artcurial, Paris [10]


References

  1. ↑ http://www.artribune.com/2014/08/dalle-strade-a-saatchi-per-alo-e-accaduto-tutto-molto-in-fretta/foto-71/
  2. ↑ http://www.streetartnews.net/2014/11/coverage-pm6-curated-by-jonathan-levine.html
  3. ↑ http://beexposed.co.uk/exhibition-alo-hail-to-the-loser-by-kevin-hunter/
  4. ↑ http://www.widewalls.ch/10-favorite-urban-art-exhibitions-of-2014/
  5. ↑ http://www.widewalls.ch/10-italian-urban-artists/
  6. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/next/2014/09/04/news/a_londra_per_dipingere_su_tela_e_su_strada_con_alo_la_street_art_fa_il_giro_del_mondo-94984697/
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuSF8erGpA
  8. ↑ http://www.widewalls.ch/alo-exhibition-saatchi-gallery/
  9. ↑ http://www.artribune.com/2014/08/dalle-strade-a-saatchi-per-alo-e-accaduto-tutto-molto-in-fretta/
  10. ↑ https://www.artcurial.com/en/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=3008%20%20%20%20%20%2053%20&refno=10554373/


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