An Artist Talks with Alessandro Vitali, 09.02.2011, Kunsthaus Tacheles

Alessandro Vitali came exceptionnally on a Wednesday and it was a great pleasure to meet this Italian artist.
Alessandro has a very sharp vision of what an artist should be and do...
He left Italy because, he didn't like the mentality around the art scene.
He describes the problems due to corruption and lack of discipline within the structures of the administration and the government that does not support art.
He decided to come to Berlin and has his studio in Skalitzerstrasse. He has opened his space to exhibitions twice a month, the next coming event is on the 1st of March, Skalitzer 140.
He is in his mind mostly when he talks about his work and what makes him produce art, he does paintings and sculptures. 
Alessandro has a very affectionate and passionate relationship to his work and decides they are finished, when he does no longer enjoy working with/on them... As if they were people, you could get involved with, and then get fed up of and leave. 
He collects objects and material, he likes to combine them into his creations as he goes into the process of making.
At first he studied architecture, and abandoned when he was going to have a nervous break down, because this was not what he really wanted and felt under social pressure.
Leaving his country is also like a rebirth and today, his artistic work is first something interior and then of course the interactions with the viewer gives him a feed back, a new direction to go always further...