Alessandro Teoldi

Alessandro Teoldi’s practice crosses heterogeneous languages, ranging from painting, drawing, textile and sculpture to installation. His works explore the intimacy of the domestic environment and interpersonal relationships, the sense of belonging and detachment, but also the memory of private and collective experiences, arising from the encounter with objects, forms and specific materials.

Through the use of inflight airplane blankets – personally found, bought online or collected by friends and often coupled with cotton, linen and other materials – Teoldi creates textile compositions in which cut-out and sewn together fragments are assembled to form silhouettes caught in the act of showing and hiding, seeking and finding themselves in situations of physical contact, shyness or desire. Either isolated or grouped figures, portions of bodies, tangles of hands, arms, backs and glimpses of natural elements and landscapes are Teoldi’s main subjects, often yielded in formal terms midway between figuration and abstraction: that moment of ‘almost’ suspension that invites the onlooker to retrace connections and imagine possible ties.

Alongside his textile works, over the last three years, the artist has developed a series of concrete reliefs, in the wake of his fascination with the language of photography. Like for his textiles, the subjects of these works are snapshots of everyday life, still lives, moments of interaction with almost insignificant objects, but also barely noticeable gestures or moments of physical and sensual encounters which hint at a glimmer of familiarity and protection, thus at odds with the hardness of the material.

Alessandro Teoldi is a New York-based artist born in Milan, Italy in 1987. He received his MFA from ICP-Bard College, New York and a BA in Photography from Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan. His work has been exhibited in public and private spaces. Solo shows include: Capsule, Shanghai (2023 and 2021); Marinaro, New York (2022 and 2020); Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest (2018); Viasaterna, Milan (2018); The Cabin, Los Angeles (2018) and 11 Rivington, New York (2017). His collective projects include: Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Springs, New York (2020); Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York (2017); The Camera Club of New York (2016) and International Center of Photography, New York (2013). He was one of the 2018 residents at La Brea Artist Residency, Los Angeles, CA and a 2015 Workspace Baxter St resident at the Camera Club in New York.