Alberonero

Alberonero [lit. black tree] is a designer, painter, sculptor and sometimes a farmer.

Born in Lodi (1991), he soon started experimenting with painting in relationship to the physical space through graffiti techniques. While studying Interior Design at the Politecnico di Milano, he had the chance to merge experience with theory and to embrace a cross-disciplinary practice.

In 2012 he started focusing on the study of colour perception and on the research of a code that could minimize the visual language. For six years, he intervened in public spaces by painting sequences of colours ordered in a geometric grid, as a tool of investigation of the connections between mathematics, poetry, and sensation.

Since 2017, his interest moved towards the matter and the construction of devices made of poor materials, linked to the building and agriculture’s world such as concrete, iron, wood, agricultural nets, but also textiles, plaster, and glass, telling us about a “supernatural” reality. His practice finds form in nature, in installations born from a careful listening to the site, from the will to “become a place” and participate in the landscape in a poetic sense.

Alberonero has carried out installations, exhibitions and workshops in Italy, France, Ukraine, Spain, Poland, Germany, Indonesia, the United States and Saudi Arabia, among others.

His last project Campo [lit. field] stems from his need to reset his being in Nature.
From 2020 to 2021, he lived in symbiosis with a field of 290 poplar trees, destined to be cut down, in the countryside of Campogalliano (IT). Immersed daily among this ensemble of trees, he performed, created temporary installations, filmed, photographed, and interacted with the life of this environment: a synthesis and symbol of nature as a whole.

The name Alberonero was born in the Lagorai Alps in Trentino Alto Adige. The black trees were the last figures before the rocks and the sky, hurling themselves towards infinity, dry and bare. “Trees are my companions and I wish to be a tree.”