Alessandra Occhipinti is an emerging artist of Sicilian origin.

BACKGROUND 

Raised in the Milan hinterland, she spends her adolescence in her native land, developing a deep sensitivity towards the landscape, light, and colours of the Mediterranean. These elements become imprinted in her memory and spontaneously resurface in her painting.

Her academic path in Environmental Architecture leads her once again away from the island. She studies at the Polytechnic University of Milan and completes her education with a Master’s degree in Planning and Policies for the City, Environment and Landscape at the Alghero Department of the University of Sassari. Here, she encounters a landscape capable of evoking her beloved Sicily, strengthening her sensitivity towards the relationship between environment, memory, and identity.

The Erasmus experience undertaken during her Master’s degree represents a decisive moment in her education. She spends an extended period living in several Spanish cities, immersing herself in the architectural and cultural heritage of Catalonia, Castile, and Andalusia.

A particularly significant experience is her brief collaboration in writing editorial contributions for the Spanish international architecture magazine METALOCUS, where she expands her interdisciplinary perspective on architecture as a relationship between space and perception. At the same time, she takes part in the hands-on construction of a pavilion for the social project “URDO” by Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas, during a training experience with Estudio S.I.C., exploring the value of collective work. Upon returning to Italy, she moves to Rome, a city where she finds a dynamic and fertile environment for her personal and creative growth. Here, lost connections are rediscovered, new ones are formed, and those more distant remain alive over time.

CONCEPT

Drawing has accompanied Alessandra since childhood, alongside acrylic painting. Over time, her research progressively moves away from the representation of reality to focus on the exploration of what remains suspended within the invisible, where visual perception encounters its own limits, favouring oil painting and photography as tools of investigation.

Experiences, thoughts, and connections constitute the essence of her inspiration, leaving traces in memory that transform into artistic intuitions through continuous shifts in perspective. By exploring the boundaries of the forces of the invisible, her artistic expression gradually reveals itself, brushstroke after brushstroke, through a process of emotional re-elaboration.

Chromatic contrasts, the rhythms of brushstrokes, and the construction of space give shape to dynamic dimensions, where tensions, attractions, and inner conflicts meet, interact, and transform colour within the most intimate points of contact.

Her works invite the viewer to allow themselves to be traversed by an echo that, reflecting upon their own personal experience, opens new possibilities of interpretation.

ARTWORKS

• Lightness;
• Echo of the Monti District (Rome);
• The Anatomy of the Body: The First limit;
• Thoughts Brush Against and Pass Through One Another in the Invisible;
• Clash;
• 4:00 a.m.;
• Tug of War;
• If Only I Could...;
• Beneath the Permafrost, Panta Rhei;
• The Macrocosm Looks Through My Window;
• A Bolt from the Blue;
• The March of Thunder;
• Like the Island of the Currents (Portopalo di Capo Passero – Syracuse);
• Silence at Porto Ulisse (Ispica – Ragusa);
• Light Hides Among the Waves (Panarea – Aeolian Islands);
• How the tremor of Mount Etna;
• Fatigue;