{{Short description|Italian artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Alfredo Aceto | image = Artist Alfredo Aceto in 2023.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Alfredo Aceto in 2023 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|03|29}} | birth_place = Turin | field = Contemporary Art | website = [http://alfredoaceto.it/ Alfredo Aceto] }}

'''Alfredo Aceto''' (born 1991) is an Italian and Swiss visual artist based between Paris and Geneva.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/alfredo-aceto-endemisms-andersens-contemporary-copenhagen-2017/|title=Alfredo Aceto "Endemisms" at Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen •|date=2017-03-24|website=Mousse Magazine|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-04-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/artist/alfredo-aceto|title=Alfredo Aceto – 21 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy|website=www.artsy.net|language=en|access-date=2020-04-06}}</ref> Aceto was born in Turin, Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leenaards.ch/bourse/alfredo-aceto/ |title=Alfredo Aceto |publisher=Fondation Leenaards |access-date=2022-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://flash---art.it/article/alfredo-aceto-vincenzo-di-rosa/ |title=Dove vanno a morire i satelliti. Mondi possibili, transiti e malinconie nell'opera di Alfredo Aceto |language=it |publisher=Flash Art |date=2020-10-22 |access-date=2022-09-09}}</ref> He studied fine arts at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL), the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA) and The Mountain School of Arts (MSA^). His work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including DOC!, Paris, Museo Canonica, Rome, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Centre d'art contemporain Genève, Kunsthaus Glarus, MAMCO in Geneva and Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne . His practice includes film, installation, performance, text and sculpture, and is mainly concerned with the body and the biography.

== Art work == Using among others sculpture, film and sound,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bugadacargnel.com/en/artists/21336-alfredo-aceto|title=Artist – Alfredo Aceto|website=Bugada & Cargnel|language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref> Italian and Swiss artist Alfredo Aceto creates spaces suspended between fiction and reality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sixtyeight.dk/rerouting.html|title=SixtyEight Art Institute|website=www.sixtyeight.dk|access-date=2020-04-02}}</ref> His environments are places to live, in which one can find a sort of melancholy, artificial time alteration and image saturation. The objects he produces are traces, functional elements for the construction of the space where the blurred boundaries between his personal timeline and the collective one express the way chronology can be manipulate. His work arises from the will to create a place where would mix together the various strata of a linear form of time, turning into a platform from which signs of different ages emerge. Developing his work in a creative path that passes through multiple and never truly resolved phases of growth. Alfredo Aceto nurtures his own research by questioning his own self and, more in general, the ego that reigns in every person, if only on a latent level. Aceto is currently teaching at ECAL in Lausanne. In 2018 he is nominated for Swiss Art Awards in Basel. In 2019 he is the recipient of the prestigious Leenaards Culture Grant from the Fondation Leenaards.

== Exhibitions ==

=== Solo and Duo exhibitions ===

* 2024 ''Full Moon Sergio'', CIRCUIT, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland * 2024 Parliament Unlimited, Paris, France * 2024 ''MLIS'', Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne, France * 2024 HUA International, Beijing, China * 2023 ''Builders Supply'', Lange + Pult, Zurich, Switzerland * 2023 ''Fullo'', Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenaghen, Denmark * 2022 ''Never Curl the Tongue'', Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenaghen, Denmark * 2022 ''Chew'', with Thomas Liu Le Lann, Vin Vin, Vienna * 2021 ''Ambarabà ciccì coccò'', with Denis Savary, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen St. Gallen * 2021 Last Tango, Zurich * 2021 L'Ascensore Palermo * 2021 Galerie Parliament Unlimited, Paris * 2021 ''Brains & Bronze'', Laurence & Friends, Espace HIT, Genève * 2021 ''My Italian is a Little Rusty'', Galerie Lange + Pult, Auvernier * 2020 ''Kevin'', Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen * 2019 ''Sequoia 07'', Swiss Institute, Milan * 2018 ''Azure'', Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin * 2017 ''Unreachable Turtles'', Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca * 2017 ''Endemisms'', Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/alfredo-aceto-endemisms-andersens-contemporary-copenhagen-2017/|title=Alfredo Aceto "Endemisms" at Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen •|date=2017-03-24|website=Mousse Magazine|language=it-IT|access-date=2020-04-02}}</ref> * 2016 ''Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria'', Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation, Turin * 2016 ''Modesty or Surprise'', Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome * 2016 ''Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening'', COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris * 2015 ''Refaire le Portrait #Acte 1'', Kunsthalle Geneva, Genève * 2015 ''Refaire le Portrait #Acte 2'', ''Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare'', Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva * 2014 ''Prophétie et Croque-Monsieurs'', Happy Baby Gallery, Lausanne * 2014 ''HARAM'', Frutta, Rome

=== Selected group exhibitions ===

* 2020 ''Blade Banner'', Sprint, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan * 2020 ''The Living Room'', ArtGenève, curated by Samuel Gross, Geneva * 2020 ''UPLIFT'', Galerie Xippas, Geneva * 2020 ''La Totale'', Moulin de Sainte Marie, Les Moulins * 2020 ''The Crowning Show'', Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich * 2019 ''#80|90'', Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome * 2019 ''Immersione Libera'', Palazzina dei bagni misteriosi, Milan * 2019 ''Still Life: An Ongoing Story'', Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva * 2019 ''La métamorphose de l’art imprimé, Zeitgenössische Westschweizer Editionen und serielle Unikate'', VFO, Verein fur Originalgraphik, Zurich * 2019 ''Art Basel Lounge'', Messe Basel, Basel * 2019 ''The Big Rip, Bounce Chill or Crunch?'', Last Tango, Zurich * 2018 ''Swiss Art Awards'', Messe Basel, Basel * 2018 ''Le Colt est Jeune & Haine'', DOC!, curated by Cédric Fauq, Paris * 2018 ''Greffes'', Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin * 2018 ''Talent Prize'', Mattatoio, Rome * 2018 ''Performance Program Code Art Fair, curated by Irene Campolmi'', Bella Center, Copenaghen * 2018 ''Greffes'', Lateral Art Space, Cluj-Napoca * 2018 ''Re-Routing Nature'', Alfredo Aceto, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Adrien Missika, Biitsi, Rune Bosse, Viktor Timofeev, curated by Irene Campolmi, Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenaghen * 2018 ''Greffes'', Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space, Venice * 2017 ''La Norme Idéale'', Levy Delval, Brussels * 2017 ''X'', Galerie l'ELAC, Renens * 2017 ''Shivers Only'', with Iván Argote, Mohamed Bourouissa, Antoine Donzeaud, Julien Goniche, Angélique Heidler, Thomas Mailaender, Hubert Marot, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, La Paix, Paris * 2017 ''National Museum of Contemporary Art'', Bucharest * 2017 ''Terrasse 2017'', Silicon Malley, Lausanne * 2017 ''Greffes'', with Mohamed Namou, Achraf Touloub, Villa Medici, Rome * 2017 ''Happiness is a Fiat 500'', White Cuib, Cluj-Napoca * 2017 ''Mementos'', curated by Piper Marshall and Jens Hoffmann, Tours et Taxis, Brussels * 2017 ''Prix MAIF pour la sculpture 2017'', MAIF Social Club, Paris * 2017 ''Alfredo Aceto, Nicola Martini, Lionel Maunz'', DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin * 2017 ''Premio Moroso'', curated by Andrea Bruciati and Paola Pivi, Museo Etnografico, Udine * 2017 ''Solidi Platoonici'', La Rada, Locarno * 2017 ''General Audition'', curated by Samuel Gross and Stéphane Kropf, L'élac, Lausanne * 2016 ''In Mostra – corpo, gesto, postura'', curated by Simone Menegoi, Artissima, Turin * 2016 ''The Milky Way'', Gio Marconi, Milan * 2016 ''Il Principio è solo e solo un centro spostato verso il centro'', COSMIC Galerie, Bugada & Cargnel Paris * 2016 ''Souvenir d'été'', Villa Medici, Rome * 2016 ''I would've Done Everything For You / Gimme More!'', Flat 7, 22 Westland Place, curated by Cédric Fauq, London * 2016 ''Kiefer-Ablitzel'', Swiss Art Awards, Basel * 2016 ''All the Lights We Cannot See'', Random Institute, Pyongyang * 2016 ''Texture and Liquidity'', The Workbench International, Milan * 2015 ''Death of the Shambls'', Silicon Malley, Prilly * 2015 ''Wincklemans'', PAZIOLI, Chavannes-près-Renens * 2015 ''Unter 30 Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis'', Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus * 2015 ''Nuit des Musées'', Musée Jenisch, Vevey * 2015 ''Kiefer-Ablitzel'', Swiss Art Awards, Basel * 2015 ''LISTE'', Bugada & Cargnel, Basel * 2015 ''L'heure qu'il est'', Centre d'Art Contemporain (CACY), Yverdon-les-Bains * 2015 ''Lavorare lavorare lavorare, preferisco il rumore del mare'', Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre D'Art Contemporain, Geneva * 2015 ''Club of Matinée Idolz'', {{Proper name|CO2 Gallery}}, Turin * 2014 ''The Go-Between'', Museo di Capodimonte, Naples * 2014 ''The Arcades Project'', Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris * 2014 ''Jump'', Gasconade at Art-O-Rama, Marseille * 2014 ''Partis Pris'', Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva * 2014 ''World Wide'', WALLRISS, Fribourg * 2013 ''One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Peep-Hole'', Peep-Hole, Milan * 2013 ''Sol LeWit Loves Pancakes'', ZIP, Basel * 2013 ''ARI MORTIS'', curated by Milovan Farronato and Roberto Cuoghi, Museo del 900, Milan, Italy * 2012 ''There is a différence between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks'', curated by Philippe Decrauzat, ECAL * 2011 ''Fforfake'', Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta * 2011 ''This is Tomorrow'', Alfredo Aceto, Trisha Baga, Benjamin Senior, Jacob Kerray, Aaron Angell, Ben Schumacher, David Ostrowski, Galleria Annarumma, Naples * 2011 ''Nero su Nero'', Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin * 2011 ''Soirée'', Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato * 2011 ''Lanificio'', Lanificio 159 Magazzino dell'arte, Rome * 2011 ''Bramante & Friends'', Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta * 2011 ''Km011'', Turin Museum of Natural History, Turin * 2010 ''OPS!'', Ambassade de France en Italie, Turin * 2009 ''La ricostruzione dei mondi'', Galleria Changing Role, Rome * 2009 ''I ricordanti'', Museo d'arte contemporanea La Filanda dei Cipressi del Real Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta

== Residencies ==

* 2020 Istituto Svizzero, Milan * 2018 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel, Basel * 2018 Talent Prize, InsideArt Magazine, Rome * 2017 MAIF, Prix pour la sculpture, Paris * 2017 Premio Moroso, Udine * 2016 Cité internationale des arts, Paris * 2016 Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Messe Basel, Basel * 2016 MSA^, Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles * 2015 Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Messe Basel, Basel * 2015 Kunsthalle Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva * 2014 Residency Unlimited (RU), New York City * 2013 Full Scale, Museo del Novecento, Milan * 2010 Ville de Lille, Lille

== Publications ==

* Immersione Libera, ed Galleria Continua * ArtClub, ed Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis * Fortezzuola, ed Pier Paolo Pancotto, Nero Magazine * Premio Moroso, text by Cédric Fauq. Catalogue * As If We Never Said Goodbye, text by Elise Lammer. Ed. Dittrich & Schlechtriem * Something between Posthistoria and Prehistoria. Texts by Stéphanie Serra and Tristan Lavoyer. Barriera and Albert Stiftung Foundation (Pro Helvetia) * Alfredo Aceto | Andrea Bellini. First Monograph HAPAX. JRP Ringier 2015 * Unter 30 XI Junge Schweizer Kunst Kiefer Hablitzel Preis. Catalogue. Kunsthaus Glarus * L'heure qu'il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain Yverdon (CACY). Catalogue * TEXTSCORE. Entretiens avec Arthur Fouray * De Generation of Painting. Fondazione 107 * The Go In Between. Museo di Capodimonte * Km011. Umberto Allemandi & C * Interview Julien Previeux. Alfredo Aceto and Jean Bourgois, ECAL

==References==

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== External links ==

* (English) [http://ecal.ch/fr/1128/formations/propedeutique/descriptif] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806043540/https://www.ecal.ch/fr/1128/formations/propedeutique/descriptif |date=2021-08-06 }} * (English) [http://andersenscontemporary.dk/artists/27161/alfredo-aceto/works/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805193002/https://andersenscontemporary.dk/artists/27161/alfredo-aceto/works/ |date=2020-08-05 }} * (German) [http://www.dittrich-schlechtriem.com/artists/alfredo-aceto/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119063954/https://dittrich-schlechtriem.com/artists/alfredo-aceto/ |date=2021-01-19 }} * (French) [http://www.bugadacargnel.com/fr/pages/artistes.php?name=21336] * (French) [http://www.centre.ch/en/alfredo-aceto-en]

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