Alfredo Aceto

Alfredo Aceto (born 1991) is a visual artist based in Switzerland. Aceto was born in Turin, Italy. He studied fine arts at ECAL. His practice is defined by constant narration and humor. Alfredo Aceto works on the paradox of immortality and its impossibility. His work has been shown at institutions and galleries such as Museo del Novecento, Blancpain Art Contemporain^[1] and Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva^[2]

Art work

Aceto first gained international recognition with his obsessional relationship with French artist Sophie Calle. Aceto convinced Calle to make her signature tattooed on his arm (2009). By asking for a permanent artistic gesture Aceto becomes part of Sophie Calle’s work.
In NGC 6543, Aceto constructed a real-size whale that constitutes the effigy of a sculpture, appearing in a stately pose with one of the two eyes that belong to the artist. Almost without expression, it touch a sort of spirituality.
In 2013, he founded Allianz with his friend Emanuele Marcuccio. Allianz is a small platform for broad experimentation in culture. In 2015, Aceto began teaching art at ECAL

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2016 Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria, Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation, Turin
• 2016 Modesty or Surprise, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome
• 2016 Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening, COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris
• 2015 Refaire le Portrait #Acte 1, Kunsthalle Geneva, Genève
• 2015 Refaire le Portrait #Acte 2, Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva
• 2014 Prophétie et Croque-Monsieurs, Happy Baby Gallery, Lausanne
• 2014 HARAM, Frutta, Rome
• 2013 iii-ooo, BLANCPAIN ART CONTEMPORAIN, Geneva
• 2012 Drugs, curated by Aurore Valade, Galerie Vol de Nuits, Marseille
• 2011 Lullabies for obsessions, Galleria Changing Role, Rome
• 2010 Format à l'italienne, Espace le Carré, Lille
• 2009 Poursuite, curated by Olga Gambari, Centre Culturel Francais, Turin

Selected group exhibitions

• 2016 In Mostra - corpo, gesto, postura, curated by Simone Menegoi, Artissima, Turin
• 2016 The Milky Way, Gio Marconi, Milan
• 2016 Il Principio è solo e solo un centro spostato verso il centro, COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris
• 2016 Souvenir d'été, Villa Medici, Rome
• 2016 I would've Done Everything For You / Gimme More!, Flat 7, 22 Westland Place, curated by Cédric Fauq, London
• 2016 Kiefer-Ablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Basel
• 2016 All the Lights We Cannot See, Random Institute, Pyongyang
• 2016 Texture and Liquidity, The Workbench International, Milan
• 2015 Death of the Shambls, Silicon Malley, Prilly
• 2015 Wincklemans, PAZIOLI, Chavannes-près-Renens
• 2015 Unter 30 Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus
• 2015 Nuit des Musées, Musée Jenisch, Vevey
• 2015 Kiefer-Ablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Basel
• 2015 LISTE, Bugada & Cargnel, Basel
• 2015 L'heure qu'il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain (CACY), Yverdon-les-Bains
• 2015 Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare, Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva
• 2015 Club of Matinée Idolz, CO2, Turin
• 2014 The Go-Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
• 2014 The Arcades Project, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
• 2014 Jump, Gasconade at Art-O-Rama, Marseille
• 2014 Partis Pris, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
• 2014 World Wide, WALLRISS, Fribourg
• 2013 One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Peep-Hole, Peep-Hole, Milan
• 2013 Sol LeWit Loves Pancakes, ZIP, Basel
• 2013 ARI MORTIS, curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del 900, Milan, Italy
• 2012 There is a différence between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks, curated by Philippe Decrauzat, ECAL
• 2011 Fforfake, Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta
• 2011 This is Tomorrow, Alfredo Aceto, Trisha Baga, Benjamin Senior, Jacob Kerray, Aaron Angell, Ben Schumacher, David Ostrowski, Galleria Annarumma, Naples
• 2011 Nero su Nero, Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
• 2011 Soirée, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato
• 2011 Lanificio, Lanificio 159 Magazzino dell'arte, Rome
• 2011 Bramante & Friends, Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta
• 2011 Km011, Turin Museum of Natural History, Turin
• 2010 OPS!, Ambassade de France en Italie, Turin
• 2009 La ricostruzione dei mondi, Galleria Changing Role, Rome
• 2009 I ricordanti, Museo d'arte contemporanea La Filanda dei Cipressi del Real Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta

Residencies

• 2016 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 2016 MSA^, Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles
• 2015 Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
• 2014 Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City
• 2013 Full Scale, Museo del Novecento, Milan
• 2013 ArtPort, Tel Aviv
• 2010 Ville de Lille, Lille

Publications

• Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria. Texts by Stéphanie Serra and Tristan Lavoyer. Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation (Pro Helvetia)
• Alfredo Aceto | Andrea Bellini. First Monograph HAPAX. JRP Ringier 2015
• Unter 30 XI Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis. Catalogue. Kunsthaus Glarus
• L'heure qu'il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon (CACY). Catalogue
• TEXTSCORE. Entretiens avec Arthur Fouray
• De Generation of Painting. Fondazione 107
• The Go In Between. Museo di Capodimonte
• Km011. Umberto Allemandi & C
• Interview Julien Previeux. Alfredo Aceto and Jean Bourgois, ECAL

References

External links

• (Italian) Il Giornaleoff
• (Italian) Art Text Pics
• (French)
• (French)