Alessandro Brighetti
Raised in a family of doctors, Alessandro Brighetti takes a scientific approach to kinetic sculptures, powering them through material manipulation rather than digital assistance. The artist has collaborated with a chemist to create ferrofluid, an oil that responds to the pull of magnets. Used in medicine as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, Brighetti applies the liquid to art, coating resin sculptures of body parts such as a brain, spine, and heart. In
Schizophrenia
(2011), a skull sits in a shallow bath of the constantly morphing substance which gathers and recedes around the teeth, through the eye cavities, and accumulates into ominously spiky shapes that crawl across the surface. It’s a haunting illustration of the unpredictability of a brain disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally. Mesmerizing hybrids of biology, physics, and art, Brighetti says, "I like to think of my works as natural and narcotic architectures.”
Brighetti has had solo exhibitions at Museo Arte Ravenna, Galleria Primo Marella in Milan, Primae Noctis Gallery in Lugano, and Scaramouch in New York, among other venues. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Winterthur in Switzerland, Saatchi Gallery in London, Victoria and Albert Museum in …
Raised in a family of doctors, Alessandro Brighetti takes a scientific approach to kinetic sculptures, powering them through material manipulation rather than digital assistance. The artist has collaborated with a chemist to create ferrofluid, an oil that responds to the pull of magnets. Used in medicine as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, Brighetti applies the liquid to art, coating resin sculptures of body parts such as a brain, spine, and heart. In
Schizophrenia
(2011), a skull sits in a shallow bath of the constantly morphing substance which gathers and recedes around the teeth, through the eye cavities, and accumulates into ominously spiky shapes that crawl across the surface. It’s a haunting illustration of the unpredictability of a brain disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally. Mesmerizing hybrids of biology, physics, and art, Brighetti says, "I like to think of my works as natural and narcotic architectures.”
Brighetti has had solo exhibitions at Museo Arte Ravenna, Galleria Primo Marella in Milan, Primae Noctis Gallery in Lugano, and Scaramouch in New York, among other venues. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Winterthur in Switzerland, Saatchi Gallery in London, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.
Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
Izolyatsia Foundation, Donetsk, Ukraine
Museo Arte Citta' Di Ravenna, Italy
Museum Beelden Aan Zee, Den Haag, Netherlands
Zeppelin Universitat Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Scarmouche, New York, NY
Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy