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Biography
1978-1987 Alessandro Fantini was born in Atessa (Italy) on November 8th, the last of three brothers. He began his artistic activities in the first six years of his life drawing under the influence of Disney comics. In July 1986 he sold his first artwork made in alcool colors for a local auction at his town.
1988-1992 Alessandro created his own comic world inspired to Donald Duck's characters and some of his comic tales reached TOPOLINO, the main Italian Disney magazine obtaining an alluring review on its pages. He learned the rudiments of watercolor painting without great success and due to this apparent lack of talent his art teacher tried to discourage him to keep painting. The art teacher also menaced to expulse the young Alessandro from school after seeing a satirical portrait of him he had drawn during the lesson. The first oozy period of his adolescence was underlined by the discovering of horror writers like Poe, Le Fanu, Maupassant, Barker, Love craft, King and the deep study of painters like Bosch, Leonardo, De Chirico, Ernst, Magritte, Poortvliet and Dalì. In 1992 he started painting experimental compositions based on mixed technique of watercolor and alcool on paper. Also he wrote poems and novels developing a particular view of neogotic taste.
1993-1996 His tastes were more and more closer to those of surrealist movement (particularly Dalì, Delvaux, Tanguy and Ernst) and his graphic production absorbed the visual moods of his childish obsessions about lizards, bells, cats and countryside puzzling fascinations. In 1994 Alessandro improved his capabilities by himself by the adoption of oil on canvas method beginning the first saga of pictures inspired by dreamscapes of Dalì and De Chirico. In 1995 he exhibited six paintings for the first time at a local show room of his town. In 1996 he could set up the first solo exhibition at his private house, entitled "THE FLIGHT OF CHRYSOMELOIDES"
1997-2001 He established his atelier inside the grandparent’s bedroom. In February 1997, with the help of his philosophy teacher Remo Rapino and a cultural brotherhood of Lanciano city he could organize a large solo exhibition called "IMAGE AND SONG: DREAM IN THE BOTTLE" inside the hall of the Crecchio's Palace, attracting hundreds of visitors and media (press and RAI Italian national television). In the same year he completed his secondary education with full marks and spent two weeks in Britain taking new iconographic elements from his walking around Lancing chapel near Brighton. During the summer the mayor of Atessa invited him to exhibit in the town for a third solo show. He becomes university student of modern literature at Chieti attending the history of art course. In 1998 he created a great triptic he showed in the fourth solo exhibition called "Neo-Hypnerotomachia Pingendi" inside Crecchio city Yellow Palace. In the same year he exhibited his artworks inspired to the Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio during a celebration prepared in his famous summer hermitage by the Adriatic Sea "L'eremo di S.Vito". His style developed over the surrealism boundary acquainting him with Flemish atmospheres and H.R.Giger biomechanical hyperrealism. He directed some short movies in vhs concerning his paintings, several fiction projects and a long movie shooted using his friends like actors entitled "EGERIA", whose original plot and screenplay were written by himself.
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1999-2001 In 1999 he collected an art-rock band in order to hold up his poems and songs into musical format. Various live-concerts were scheduled in the down town Atessa the most impressive of which was the one conceived by Alessandro to take place in Piazzano square-garden with a video-projections on stage-screen showing his visual creations behind him. During the 1999 summer he realized a live happening with canvas-mannequins covered with live shellfishes. On 2000 the mayor of Atessa to partecipate at “ATESSA IN JAZZ” musical event invited him again with his fifth solo into municipal palace. On 2001 he practiced music solo-performances with an old korg dw-8000 and multitracks devices on computer to create ambient-noise soundtracks for his vernissages. In June he puts on line his own official web site www.afankingdom.3000.it personally edited and updated monthly by himself. In October he began writing his university degree thesis about the Pre-Raphaelites and their relationship with Italian artists. He publishes some of his novels and poems on the Italian literary website www .liberodiscrivere.it. He works on new canvas and artwprks on Plexiglas created according to his medianic system and on a remote email-cooperation with his cousin Lorenzo Fantini for the graphic illustration of his novels.
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2002
He conceived and performed a multimedia happening called "OPERA VILLE DIODATI" inside an art-club of Pescara city with digital video-projections of his canvases on stage, reading his poems with the accompaniment of his original soundtracks and the exhibition of 14 original canvases hanging on the walls. He continues to write the thesis making several enquiries inside Rome librarians and visiting during summertime the museums and art-archives of London. The pre-Raphaelite suggestions influenced some of his new pictures like "Braille" and "La Rensa di Goitp" painted on springtime. In November he obtained the first class honors.
2003
He directs several short movies and musical video clips in digital format with bunuel-like and lynch like atmospheres, creating finally the "Phosphoric Trilogy" accompanied by an original score composed properly by him. In July he sets up a new art exhibition inside the Province Palace of Pescara city entitled "KRIOGENA" with press and television coverage. In September he has a vacation in Spain in order to make a dalinian pilgrimage between Figueras, Cadaques, Pubol and Barcelona. In the same month he directs and co-produce a documentary on his art and a new dark-gothic short movie intitled "A Glance Beyond" with the collaboration of his cousin Lorenzo Fantini.
2004
He directs a musical video clip of his new original song composed and performed by himself intitled "Florebit". He meets Alejandro Jodorowsky in Rome during the presentation of his autobiography, showing him his portrait. During one of his stays in Rome he knows a bizarre art critic who, instead to arrange for him an exhibition in the city, invited him to quit painting and to devote himself to sex and work in a factory. Alessandro replied showing him with his camera the close-up of a woman naked belly he recorded few minutes before. In summer he directs and produce a new movie, a cyber-noir located within the dark-hurban environments of Rome, :Login Praeneste". In September a photographic self-portrait of him inside his atelier with the picture "O.B.E." was published on the new international Jean Michel Jarre's album booklet AERO. In November he directs the short-movie "DAIMON" by a lighthouse on the Adriatic coast, inspired to his hallucinations about war and the theme of birth. He completes the writing of a collection of erotic-dark tales illustrated by his oil pictures entitled "AMORGUE- TALES FROM THE DEEP EROS".
2005
He composes a concept album called "In The Myst of Future" which contains also "Florebit" and new songs and psychedelic-ambient tracks. In the same period he directs the video clip of his song "Amnihollow" and the short movie "MDMA" based upon the effects produced by using the synthetic drugs so popular among the new young generation. In august he organizes an experimental multimedia show called "THE ATMAN JOURNEY" inside the Ferri Palace located in Atessa with an audio-visual installation and a selection of oil pictures. During the autumn he directs the mystic thriller "TIRANTI TRANSIT" shooted in the natural locations of Sangro Valley. In October he personally homage the Stanley Kubrick's widow Christiane Kubrick with a charcoal, pastel and inks portrait of his husband.
2006
In January he writes and performs a vocal version of the French musician Francis Rimbert's track "What is love". The short "TIRANTI TRANSIT" is premiered in February in Rome for the MARTELIVE festival selections. In the springtime the short is broadcasted on the SKY channel Family Life TV for the program "I Corti di Corte". He illustrates and co-writes” THE NIGHT's VEIL", an anthology of fantasy tales published by the Italian publisher Liberodiscrivere whose title is taken by his tale. He exhibits a selection of six paintings for the group exhibition "IO" inside the ancient halls of the Auditorium Diocleziano in Lanciano. In May he takes part in the Turin International Book Fairexhibiting the original cover and illustrations of the book and joining the presentation along with the curators and the other writers. He directs a music video for his new song "Romanaclef". In June he writes and directs the movie "THE RAIN FRAMES" located in the places of his childhood as the main inspiration for its production comes from the reminiscences of legends and dreams based on the Sangro river wilderness. In summer he begins writing the dark-fantasy tale "ENDOMETRIA". In November he joins the parallel realm of "Second Life" organizing his first virtual exhibition called "THE ORGONIC POEM" in the MUSE ART GALLERY. At the end of the year he celebrates the 30th anniversary of Jean Michel Jarre's best selling album "Oxygen" painting the canvas "SPIRACULA".
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2007
He directs and performs the music video of his new song” APOCALYPSE IN PILLS". In April the publisher Liberodiscrivere releases his illustrated dark-fantasy novel "ENDOMETRIA - THE SEED OF FLESH" which he personally presents the month after at the Turin International Book fair. The book is just the pivotal artistic cell of a wider organism composed by visual and musical fragments, constantly developing and growing through other artworks Alessandro plans to create along the year. In may he completes the editing of the movie "THE ROAD TO SHAKTY", a visionary musing about the lost of memories and the lack of spiritual deepness in the contemporary life. In June he conceived and produced a music video for the track "Innocence" in order to apply the Bjork video contest. In October the London Brick Lane gallery group exhibition "ART IN MIND" hosts a selection of his oil paintings: "David Lynch", "Spiracula", "Memories of dreams" a tribute to the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner, "Bhagavad-gita" and "Tat twan asi".
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During his two stays in London in June and October he shot some sequences for the black and white video art "aVoid" he edited in December, the first proper "multimedianic" experiment structured as an irrational web of free associations of sounds, music and images. On December 1st the Sky channel ECOTV broadcasted his short movie "THE ROAD TO SHAKTY" in the 7th episode of the program "MINIMOVIE” followed by an interview in the studio in which he talks about the production of the movie and his artistic concepts.
Exhibition/Education
First class honours degree at the Gabriele d'Annunzio university with a thesis about history of contemporary art.
1995- Group exhibition – Piana la Fara- Atessa (CH)
1995 - Group exhibition – Palazzo Comunale- Fossacesia (Ch)
1996- Solo display - "Il volo dei Crisomelidi" – Monte Marcone di Atessa (CH)
1996- Group exhibition - Piazzano di Atessa (CH)
1997- Solo display “Imago e Canzone”- Palazzo de Crecchio – Lanciano (Ch)
1997- Solo display “Fati Fosfenici” – Ex-chiesa S.Gaetano – Atessa (Ch)
1998 - Solo display “Neohypnerotomachia pingendi”– Palazzo Giallo – Crecchio (Ch)
1998- Solo display “D’Annunzio visio picta” -Eremo Dannunziano – S.Vito (Ch)
1999- Solo display -happening “Praecordia” – Piazzano di Atessa (Ch)
1999- Solo display - Monte Marcone di Atessa (Ch)
2000- Solo dislay - “Mirada Fuerte” – Sala consiliare - Atessa (Ch)
2001- Group exhibition –Monte Marcone di Atessa (Ch)
2002- Solo display -happening “Opera Ville Diodati” – Pozzo delle Arti – Pescara
2003- Solo display - “Kryogena” – Palazzo della Provincia – Pescara
2003- Group Exhibition – Monte Marcone di Atessa
2003- Group exhibition – Castello Ducale- Casoli (Ch)
2004- Group exhibition – Lanciano nel fumetto- Auditorium Diocleziano- Lanciano (Ch)
2004- Group exhibition – Palazzo ex-liceo classico- Lanciano (Ch)
2005- Solo display - "Il viaggio dell'Atman" - Palazzo Ferri- Atessa (CH)
2006- Group exhibition - "IO" -Auditorium Diocleziano - Lanciano (CH)
2006- Solo display- Turin International Book Fair- TURIN
2007- "ART in MIND" exhibition, Brick Lane Gallery, LONDON
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