Alessandro Teoldi

Alessandro Teoldi employs mixed media in his artistic practice, which spans textiles, installation, sculpture, and drawing.

Biography of Alessandro Teoldi

Alessandro Teoldi was born in 1987 in Milan, Italy. Currently, he lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

In 2009, he received his BFA in Photography from IED – Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. Later, in 2013, Teoldi obtained an MFA in Photographic Studies from Bard College – ICP in New York.

In 2015, he held a residency at Baxter St. at The Camera Club of New York. Three years later, in 2018, Alessandro Teoldi was an artist-in-residence at La Brea Artist Residency in Los Angeles.

Teoldi's notable solo exhibitions include "Looking Back" at Capsule Shanghai in Shanghai (2023), "Duet" at Marinaro in New York (2022), "Sole negli Occhi" at Capsule Shanghai in Shanghai (2021), "Venti Giorni" at Galleria Acappella in Naples (2021), "Your Distant Voices" at Marinaro in New York (2020), "Rare Finds" at The Cabin in Los Angeles (2018), "In Parts" at Suprainfinit Gallery in Bucharest (2018), and many more.

Alessandro Teoldi has also exhibited his art in various group shows, including "Among Flowers" at TURN Gallery in New York (2022), "All of a Sudden" at Galeria Mascota in Aspen (2020), "Interior Landscapes" at Assembly Room in New York (2019), "New Vision: Virtual Reality" at Jerome L. Green Science Center in New York (2018), among others.

Alessandro Teoldi's Art Style

In his artistic practice, Alessandro Teoldi repurposes inflight airplane blankets, either collected from personal travels or acquired online, stitching them together to form representations of embraces, body parts, and familiar portraits. These figures evoke and construct melancholic narratives. The synthetic blankets reveal genuine narratives, with their colors and textures delving into themes of presence and absence, as well as the intimacy and proximity inherent in human nature.

His recent body of work, crafted from concrete, portrays desirable encounters and situations, alluding to the fragility and stillness of human existence, which has been prominent during the pandemic. In these small-scale concrete creations, we find subtle depictions of small groups of people hugging and embracing one another. The use of solid concrete material brings to the fore concepts of protection and solidarity, underscoring the idea that collective ways of being and interacting should always prevail in our realities.