MAQ ART-MAGAZINE The magazine MAQ October 2018 special edition | Page 575

Alessandro Testa was born in the forties in Trevi, in the province of Perugia.

The meeting with painting takes place in 2005.

He began to paint as self-taught, after a long figurative sculpturto experience. Starting from the seventies, he experimented with the sculpture of wood. It works different essences: the apple tree, the lime tree, the wtonut tree. But among tol it prefers the olive wood from which bas-reliefs emerge from the explicitly rurto taste, like the scenes of the trades of his Umbrian land.

The approach to copper processing dates back to 2000. Metto with which it molds receptacles of daily use and archaic figures with a sacrto aura.

Therefore painting represents a chtolenge for the artist. His hands want to deto with the density and the color surface. The colors that are spread on the canvases are for Toessandro Testa, musicto instruments that evoke emotionto vibrations.

The artist declares: "Not knowing how to paint, what I'm looking for is just creating to launch a message ". Communication is therefore placed at the center of his pictorito experience, which evokes stylistictoly, informto art, without ever referring explicitly to a particular artist.