Biography
Maurizio L'Altrella was born in 1972 in Milan, where he lives and works.
He began his pictorial experience in 2010, offering his work to art galleries, curators, critics and art collectors. Today his works are part of prestigious private collections, he collaborates with galleries in Italy and abroad.
His influences and his inspiration pass mainly through the observation of the great Flemish masters of the '500 / '600, Italian, Spanish and those of the 19th and 20th centuries including Eduard Manet, Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter.
In Maurizio L'Altrella's paintings there is "something" that lies beyond (or perhaps in the middle) between the natural and the extranatural. This non-territory exists in a manner of speaking, that is "within" these selected works by Maurizio L'Altrella. It represents the "place" in which the artist connotes the subjects of his paintings, a "place" entirely for them, the "terranity" or "terrestrialness": you call it the condition of the spirit, if you like. The subjects painted by L'Altrella, mostly animals but also humans, are not mythological beings: therefore it is useless to dig into memory to try to associate them with some cultural tradition. Painted in a warped and distorted way, these creatures are essentially symbolic and have a value that transcends belonging to specific civilizations. If we wanted to relate them as closely as possible to us, we could say that these figures fulfill the same hieratic function. In his artistic journey everything moves through dreamlike, mythological and metaphysical visions. He never has a predetermined order in the search for his subjects. The artist delves into his ego and lets himself be guided by the feeling and memory of each element that retains its intrinsic value.
