Alice Guareschi was born in 1976 in Parma (Italy), and currently lives and works in Milano.
She graduated in philosophy at the University of Bologna. In 2005 she was resident artist at
Palais de Tokyo’s Le Pavillon in Paris, in 2008 she was awarded with the Young Italian Art’s
grant promoted by Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum, in 2011/2012 she was the
recipient of the Italian Atelier at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Solo shows include Galleria
Alessandro De March (Milano), Galleria Sonia Rosso (Torino), Castello di Rivoli (Torino), DREI
Galerie (Cologne), Joey Ramone Gallery (Rotterdam), MAN Museum (Nuoro), Spazio Treccani
Arte (Roma). Group shows include Exit. Nuove geografie dell’arte in Italia, Fondazione Sandretto
Re Rebaudengo (Torino), The Final Cut, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Aperto per Lavori in Corso, PAC
(Milano), XV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma), Disarming Matter, Dunkers
Kulturhus (Helsingborg), Fantasmata, Arge/Kunst Galleria Museo (Bolzano), Il Belpaese dell’Arte,
Gamec (Bergamo), This and There, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris)
, Autoritratti, MAMbo
(Bologna), Andata e Ricordo: souvenir de voyage, Mart (Rovereto), Tutta l’Italia è silenziosa,
Accademie di Spagna e Tedesca (Roma), Le Futur derrière nous, Villa Arson (Nice).
“Over the years, my work was often confronted with concepts like void, distance, negation,
absence, by insisting on their positive dimension — a dimension able to relaunch the potentiality
of a place or an object, and therefore to affirm the possibility of different perspectives, of images
beyond the visible. Individually and together, most of my artworks — both the ones physically
present in a given space and the filmic ones — are in a certain sense places of transit, elements
that are in between. Objects silent as timeless ruins, sites waiting to bring to light new things,
by isolating them from chaos and reaffirming them, or fragments of speech torn from wider
conversations — they testify and act as bridges between these two dimensions which we silently
contend with each day: implacable infinity, the vastness of space, the incalculable, superhuman
time; and the everyday, contingent gesture, the constant and inevitable action of choices and gazes.
Not everything is shown, not everything is said. The off-screen stands out as a living, powerful and
necessary presence. In an open, endless dialogue — between the artist and the viewer, but also
between the thing and the context, the object and its possible meanings, what is visible and tangible
and what is not, what is made known and what instead remains untold.”
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