Picture – Alessandro Bazan

Alessandro Bazan (Palermo, 1966) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, uses the figurative painting to tell stories, inserting its unique characters built with rapid brushstrokes within the urban or natural landscapes. The stretched and elongated figures painted by Bazan never involve the spectator directly, which is not found as an active observer of the narrated action. In their town clothes the figures are often part of a landscape context that is foreign to them.

Different from each other are the atmospheres that surround the protagonists of his stories, among which emerge the “nocturnal”, a dear theme to the artist who is part of the tradition of the Italian painting. When Bazan painted this painting entitled “The Night” – sometimes inhabited by jazz musicians, lovers or just the headlights of a car – here is the restlessness of the characters dominating the scene reflected on the painted landscape with acid colours in stark sharp contrast to the dark background.

The large size of the canvas, while referring to a TV screen, has the ability to attract the viewer into the landscape. The works of Alessandro Bazan have been exhibited in Italy and abroad, both in solo and group exhibitions in public and private galleries.