Michele Alassio Fotografo

Michele Alassio was born in Venice on 23 August 1956.

He has been a professional photographer since 1983.

As photographer, he has undertaken reports for Bell’Italia, F.M.R., Marco Polo, Atlante, Vogue Antiques and others, effected reproductions of works of art for the Sovrintendenza del Veneto, the Museo Armeno, the Museo Archeologico di Aquileia, private and public institutions, dealers and artists. He has also produced advertising still-lifes for Vogue Italia, Uomo Vogue, Elle, Lui, Vanity Fair and Vogue Gioielli and advertisingshots for Alberta Ferretti, Renè Caovilla, Ermenegildo Zegna, Lorenzo Rubelli, Al Duca D’Aosta, Giorgio Armani, Ungaro, De Beers, Sent, Domus etc, as well as for BRW and Diavivafilm per Video e Cinematografia.

In parallel with his professional activities, he has exhibited his work on several occasions:

His first exhibition was in 1995, with “Fotografia in Venezia – Paolo Monti & Michele Alassio”, held at the church of San Samuele in Venice between August and September 1995 and curated by Ziva Kraus for the Ikona Photo Gallery. In 1997, on the invitation of Lanfranco Colombo, director of the Milanese gallery, “Il Diaframma”, Alassio exhibited in the rooms of the International Photography Salon of Milan. Since 1997, the artist has suspended his exhibitions activity for motives linked both to his professional involvement in the field of reporting, fashion and advertising still-lifes, and to personal reflections on the role of art photography.

IN 1995, having opted for a professional activity, the artist began printing limited editions of his works and selling them through art galleries, both with subjects taken from the earlier exhibitions and with other, new ones, realised using a special selective Virage process on Fine Art mounted barite paper. This activity met with flattering success on the part of international collectors, who bought several hundred prints between 1997 and 2000 directly in galleries or via the photographer’s website. This led to a one-man show in September 2000 at the Bac Art Studio of Venice. At the same time, between 1995 and 2002, the artist planned and completed the “Sacks” exhibition: 13 images inspired by the cases described by the famous American neuropsychiatrist, and which met with his unqualified approval. These were presented in a preview exhibition at the Bugno Art Gallery in Venice in December 2002. In 2003, it was the turn of “Next Stop”, a further 13 images taken in the various venues of the Venice Biennale, that year entitled “Dreams and Conflicts”. Both exhibitions were presented again in Cortina d’Ampezzo at the Sovilla bookshop in the summer and winter of 2004. During the same year and into 2005, Alassio accepted a commission from Emilio Anbasz & Associates of New York to realise a multimedia project on the famous architecture of Emilio Ambasz’s “Casa de Retiro Espiritual”. This is located in an immense estate in Andalusia, Spain. This project gave rise to a volume of photographs accompanied by a video realised using a radio-controlled model helicopter, and an interactive file. The volume, distributed throughout the world, has been published in Italy by SKIRA.In November 2005 the M.o.M.A. - (The Museum of Modern Art) of New York has opened to this last job its espositive rooms, introducing one some thirty of photographic blowups and the aerial video. The exposure, initially previewed until the first days of the month of March 2006 has been subsequently extended to all the month. In the Month of May 2006 a selection of the same exposure has been exposed to Milan, on invites of the Museum Of the Permanente one, in the within of the exposure “the BEAUTY”.

The next personal exposithion is previewed for the month of June 2007, to Venice