Alessandro Gallicchio

Alessandro Gallicchio (1986, Italy) is a lecturer in contemporary art history at Sorbonne Université, a member of the André-Chastel Center and a research associate at CETOBaC. With a doctorate in art history from the Universities of Florence, Paris-Sorbonne, and Bonn (2016), he pursues his research following the methodologies developed by the social and political history of art. He is interested in the influences of nationalism and anti-Semitism in the construction of artistic discourse and in the relationship between art, architecture, and urban space in the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

His residency project is devoted to writing a book about Edi Hila. Adopting a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective, his project analyzes the work of an artist who has always been concerned to capture the ambiguities and complexities of contemporary Albania. Sensitive to spatialities and an acute observer of the socio-political changes that have marked this country, Hila has developed a language that could be described as ‘paradoxical realism’, and that will be at the center of this historical rereading with a critical dimension.

Portrait © Stéphane Gaessler