Papetti biography

Alessandro Papetti was born in Milan in 1958. The years from 1980 to 1986 were a time of study and of his first solo shows, followed by his participation in exhibitions in Italian public spaces from 1988 onwards.

Between 1988 and 1990, his painting concentrated on the theme of “Ritratti visti dall’alto”, a cycle to which Giovanni Testori would devote an article in “Il Corriere della Sera” in 1989.

This wide-angle view of real life was followed by a cycle of paintings, created between 1990 and 1992, entitled Reperti (Relics), in which his attention was more focused on detail, a sort of analytical study of form, and on the marks left by time in factory workshop and interiors.

A natural consequence was that, from 1992, Papetti’s study of industrial archaeology would become more in-depth, as shown by the 1996 exhibition at the Musei Civici in Villa Manzoni, Lecco, amongst others.

 

From 1992 on, he began participating in exhibitions in public spaces and