Conceptual nominee

Proportions and times: These are the key elements of my work. We often have the feeling that we are in a world which is not for us, which is not of our size. We feel isolated and victims of a system we are unable to escape. But sometimes we are not even victims, because our personality is being silenced until we might not be able to feel anything. Anyway, we all sometimes have felt very tiny in our life. This puppet represents myself telling about human condition, playing with proportions and times. I’m trying to be ironic because there must be some seriousness in the contents, mingled with irony in forms.The whole idea happens by chance: I’m sitting on the pavement when I find a puppet on the ground, I take a pic with my i-phone. This image makes me think. I eventually speak to Michele Guaschino for the realisation of the puppet. We have been talking about it and we decide to work as a team on our creation, made up of a puppet and a picture. Albertaciu, which is the name of the puppet, is a pun between Albert (my name) and “babaciu” which means puppet in my

Alessandro Albert was born in Turin in 1965. He has always been interested in photography and in the early 80’s he started to work with Paolo Verzone. In 1992 they published “Volti di Passaggio ” a book of portraits taken in Moscow during the Summer of 1991. This was published and exhibited in Arles, Rome and Milan. Alessandro Albert, as always working with Paolo Verzone, took portraits around European beaches from 1993 to 2001 for which he won the World Press Photo Award in single portraits.
Albert begins his research on the human body, exploring various forms, self portraits, autopsies, bathers.
Furthermore Albert dedicates himself to portraits and picture stories working for Italian and European monthly and weekly magazines such as 24, Flair, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, Stern, Time, The Independent. He is represented by the Agence Vu for the works with Paolo Verzone and by GettyImages agency.