Lights and Shadows, solo show by Alessandro Lupi
 at Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporanea

At 18:00 on Thursday, October 27 Guidi&Schoen inaugurates Lights and Shadows, a solo show by Genoese artist based in Berlin #alessandrolupi. The exhibition will be held in two different locations in the centre of Genoa: the artistʼs most recent works will be on exhibit in the gallery at Vico Casana 31r until November 26: a selection of works, models and sketches of works presented at the worldʼs most important light art festivals. The installation Universal Spin will be on exhibit in the courtyard of Palazzo Ducale until November 6, in partnership with #genova Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, as part of the Science Festival. The exhibition catalogue reviews the artistʼs work over the past ten years.
The focus of Alessandro Lupiʼs artistic vision is light, explored using installations and new techniques in which colour, space and time blend together dynamically. Each of his projects is a world in itself, concentrated around the concept of “inversion”, that is, the possibility of offering onlookers the opposite point of view to the one they expect. In his works, the dichotomy of opposite situations such as inside/outside, freedom/imprisonment, life/death is eliminated through near- simultaneous perception of the two aspects, without preferring one to the other either perceptively or hierarchically
Born in #genova in 1975, #alessandrolupi lives and works in Berlin.
After studying at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in #genova, he began exhibiting his work in group shows in 1999, including the Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dellʼEuropa e del Mediterraneo at the Vecchio Mattatoio in Rome and at Palazzo Ducale in #genova, returning there in 2000 as one of the artists selected for Arti Visive 3 – LʼOcchio in Ascolto. In the same year he began exhibiting his work elsewhere in Europe: at the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, Viitasaari Gallery in Finland, the Hôtel de Ville in Lyon and the Festival of Independent Young Artists in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2001 his work appeared in two other Finnish cities in the exhibition Tondo italiano, at Saarijärvi Museum and Lapinlahti Art Museum. In 2002 he exhibited his work in #genova at Museo dʼArte Contemporanea di Villa Croce and Museo di SantʼAgostino. Also in #genova, in 2003 he presented OMBRE (“Shadows”), an interactive work in the foyer of the Teatro della Corte, held a workshop at Berio Library and an exhibition on light in #contemporaryart at the Science Festival, and was among the artists invited to participate in the group show Printemps des Musés at the Frugone Collections. In 2004 Carloni #arte gallery in Frankfurt hosted his first solo exhibition, and he participated in the group show Dal profondo in the catacombs of Munich. In 2005 Guidi&Schoen presented his solo show Densità and he was invited to participate in Seven, Everything goes to hell, a group exhibition at Palazzo Pretorio in Certaldo. In 2006 he had solo shows at the Galleria Nazionale dʼArte Moderna in San Marino and again at Carloni #arte. In 2007 he created Luoghi dʼosservazione, a site-specific project for San Terenzo Castle in Lerici, and exhibited at CAMeC Centro dʼArte Moderna e Contemporanea in La Spezia, GAM Galleria dʼArte Moderna in #genova and the Hôtel de Ville of Montrouge, Paris. In 2008 he returned to Slovenia to participate in the Lighting Guerilla festival at the Ljubljana Museum, held the solo show Duemilaotto at Guidi&Schoen and created a project for Art First at Museo di Palazzo Poggi in Bologna. In 2009 he was invited to create a permanent installation for the Biennale in Havana, and exhibited his work at S&G Contemporary in Berlin, at the Belgrade of Light festival in Serbia and at the Freeshout?! festival in Prato. In 2010 the city of Ljubljana commissioned a permanent sculpture for the Trubar House of Literature, and he held a solo exhibition at Halle am Wasser in Berlin. In 2011 the monographic exhibition Percezione was held in the Sala Dogana at Palazzo Ducale in #genova. In the same year Lupi was invited to participate in the group shows Eclissi at Mya Lurgo Gallery in Lugano and Meinblauer at Meinblau in Berlin. In 2012 he had a solo show at PAOL in Paris and created a site-specific project at Apricale Castle (Imperia). In 2013 he had solo shows at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, White Labs Gallery in Milan and Meinblau in Berlin. In the same year he was among the artists selected for the Premio Cairo, participated in the international festivals Óbidos Luz in Portugal and Bella Skyway in Toruń, Poland, as well as exhibiting his work in Sweden, at the Lecturer KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Verket Museum for Avesta Art, where he returned the following year. In 2014 he also created a site-specific project entitled Flux for the Tromostovje (Triple Bridge) in Ljubljana during the Lighting Guerilla festival, participated in the group show Kontakt 1 at Glashaus in Berlin and in TIME SPACE EXISTENCE in Palazzo Bembo at the Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia. In 2015 he had a solo show at ŠKUC gallery in Ljubljana and was invited to participate in several festivals: Vicente-Proyecto Travessa da Ermida in Lisbon, Istanbul Light Festival in Turkey, Horizons “Arts nature” en Sancy in France, Bella Skyway – International Light art festival in Toruń, Poland and the LUMINA Festival da Luz in Cascais, Portugal. In 2016 he participated in the LIGHT IN JERUSALEM festival in Jerusalem and in LUX MATRIX in Tallin, Estonia, and exhibited his work at the Palazzo dei Papi kin Viterbo and at Palazzo Ducale during the Science Festival in #genova.

Lights and Shadows Solo show by #alessandrolupi

Lights and Shadows
 Guidi&Schoen #arte Contemporanea 
Genoa 
Vico Casana 31r
 Tel: 010 2530557 – mail: info@guidieschoen.com www.guidieschoen.com
Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 18:00
October 27– November 26, 2016
Tuesday through Saturday 10:00-12:30 / 16:00-19:00