Alessandro Artini: It’s Cold Outside

Galleria Doris Ghetta is pleased to present a solo exhibition in Ortisei by Alessandro Artini (Tione di Trento, 2000), whose work is rooted in the Alpine landscape and its imaginative, symbolic, and perceptual dimensions.

The new series of paintings explores snow as a surface in constant transformation—a material that preserves and erodes, stratifies and disappears—offering a vision of the mountains as shifting, atmospheric environments rather than fixed locations. While the imagery appears direct, the works reveal a layered interplay of perception, memory, and distance. Artini does not depict specific sites; instead, he reconstructs landscapes from recollections, cultural traces, and familiar Alpine motifs, using them to investigate the role of collective imagination.

His approach avoids environmental rhetoric, focusing on the presence of human experience within the natural scene, in a reflection inspired by Andrea Zanzotto. The exhibition title, It’s cold outside, evokes both the seasonal atmosphere and the emotional distance shaping the artist’s view of the mountains.

Graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Artini developed his practice within Atelier F under the guidance of Carlo Di Raco, who authored the curatorial text for the exhibition. His work balances recognisability and abstraction through a careful interplay of material density and luminous transparency.