Biography

Born in Treviso, Italy, on August 7th, 1971, graduated in painting from the Venice Art  Academy in 1996, Zannier is a visual artist, musician, songwriter and performer.

Alessandro Zannier is an atypical conceptual visual artist that has been moving with equal intensity between electronic art music and visual arts for a long time. In the recent years, he has been working on specific concepts inspired by Physics, Astronomy, Anthropocene, Historical geography and Environment realising real conceptual manifesto albums and staging specific thematic concerts with a multimedia approach that make use of visuals, electronics, a string quartet and divulgation elements concerning the topics covered. In partnership with his art dealers and the Ethic Art Movement (ARTantide Gallery), he has participated in exhibitions in three editions of Italy – China Biennale, two of those in Beijing and one in Turin, at Curitiba Biennale (Brasil), in addition to some art exhibitions in Venice, in Polo Correr (Archaeological Museum) in San Marco square and in Ca’Foscari – Science Gallery.

One of his main work features is the ability to develop the concepts of his albums both in visual arts and in writing too.

As a visual artist, he has exposed in personal and collective exhibitions and at Biennales next to artists as Ai Weiwei, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alessandro Mendini.

He has released seven albums and a collection+ a biography under the stage name “Ottodix” since 2003 and he is considered one of the cult projects belonging to the Italian electronic wave.

He inaugurated “Chimera” project in 2013, that comprises an album and several installations dedicated to the unsuccessful utopias of the twentieth century. Those have been also exposed in Berlin, Marseille, Beijing and Turin where, at Mastio della Cittadella, he installed “Chimera7”, a giant inflatable inspired to Hiroshima’s and Fukushima’s tragedies, in 2015.

He presented his new concept, along with a big installation, at Italy – China Biennale in Beijing in 2016. He performed for the Chinese television singing “Planisfera”, that anticipated 2017 “Micromega” album, accompanied by a series of exhibitions and shows ranging from Art, Physics to Astronomy.

In 2017, he released and presented a huge visionary encyclopaedic platform on www.micromegaproject.com in Berlin, that is considered an unprecedented real web installation. An illustrated expansion through ramifications of “Micromega” album.

“Micromega” project generated exhibitions and mainly suggestive concerts staged at Biennales, theatres, forts, universities, ex power plants, deconsecrated churches and many others evocative places both in Italy and abroad for two years.

In 2020, in the middle of the Pandemic, he released the last concept album, “Entanglement”, received enthusiastically by critics, from prophetic shades about global hyper-connection and about its cause-and-effects impacts on worldwide phenomena (from Pandemics to migrations, fake news, all concerning the human impact on the environment anyway). A show with some test reruns has been realized, that is starting from September 2021 and it is being staged at theatres and in some historical places. However, the real important appointment is the simultaneous participation of this concept at Venice Architecture Biennale at Padiglione Italia (event hall), at CNR ISMAR, at Auckland University (NZ) at Genova-Museo Galata del mare and Venice Ca’ Foscari, at European Cultural Center and at Auckland University (NZ) with ENT1 project.

In 2021/22 continues the “ENT 6 continents” project, it’s a series of twin light installations in the world.

He is invited to the 2022 Venice Biennale of Art – Cameroon Pavilion, and to the Galata Museum in Genoa where in July he inaugurates a solo exhibition between art and marine robots “MareMoto 4.0″ (in collaboration with the CNR of Genoa, with an inaugural concert above the submarine Nazario Sauro and opening of ENT3 South America and ENT4 Asia connections).

The ENT project will continue until 2023, also intercepting the Institute of technology in New York where the catalogue “Weaving Entanglement” will be presented, a choral work on art and architecture between Italy and New Zealand of the 2021 Biennale.

His work of translation into images and audio of big environmental data develops, gives life through the practice of “sonification” of numerical data, to sound installations that generate animated 3D, the first of which is presented at the Italian Biennale – Sweden in Genoa 2022 “The latitudes of art” at Palazzo Ducale, accompanying the video installation “Toxic Aurora”.

With the Ottodix album “Entanglement” he is still on tour with an evocative show of music, science, geo-history and popularization and often accompanies the inaugural events of the artist’s exhibitions.

The eighth concept album “Arca” and related series of installations on a visionary space station hosting a hypothetical mass escape from Earth to exoplanets is scheduled for 2023.

WIKIPEDIA: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Zannier

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