Contemporary Art
Color as Destiny
Cardamone Alessandro
„Die Kunst ist keine Sache, sondern ein Weg.”
Elbert Hubbard
Cardamone Alessandro
The influence of Pablo Picasso is evident, but the style carries a more personal and contemporary touch, softening the austerity of original Cubism with more playful colours and softer forms.
Kurator
Dr Davood Khazaie
Art criticism
Alessandro Cardamone, born on February 3, 1963, is a remarkable artist celebrated for his fearless exploration of vibrant colors and his journey in the world of art.
In 2001, Cardamone received a transformative invitation to exhibit his art in France, at a prestigious event for young European artists. Despite his relative obscurity, he was honored as a guest of distinction at this international gathering of over a hundred artists. This moment marked a turning point in his artistic career.
What sets Cardamone apart is the unmistakable originality of his work, characterized by the infusion of Mediterranean colors. His style defies categorization, as it doesn't adhere to traditional art school techniques. This artistic freedom enables him to capture the essence of his surroundings with a distinctive and captivating flair.
Following this breakthrough, Cardamone's art found its way to international exhibitions, galleries, hotels, and corporate spaces. It even became part of school programs. The University of Fine Arts in Madrid recognized his talent and invited him to share his unique style with students, cementing his reputation as a noteworthy artist.
Cardamone's art is inspired by his personal experiences during his travels, resulting in themes such as Femme au Café du Louvre, Mare, Donne in spiaggia, Donne al Museo, and African Pre-Columbian Art.
His art invites viewers to engage on a visceral level, evoking powerful emotions, whether positive or negative. Cardamone consciously avoids depicting pain, loneliness, or violence, believing that life has already inflicted enough of these upon us. Instead, he aims to provide solace—a sanctuary of harmony and warmth through his vivid colors and distinctive forms.
In the world of art, Cardamone is a poet of life, using his brush to explore the realms of dreams, memories, and emotions. His colors are not mere pigments on canvas; they are an embodiment of his inner world, a symphony of emotions, and a testament to the boundless possibilities of artistic expression.
Alessandro Cardamone's journey serves as a reminder that art transcends boundaries, and the freedom to create without constraints can result in artwork that deeply resonates with the human spirit. His art is a celebration of life, color, and the power of individuality in the realm of creativity.
Intenational Kurator
Dr Davood Khazaie
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Contemporary Neo-Cubism:
A Dialogue with Picasso.
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Alessandro Cardamone
Geometries of the Soul in the Contemporary
International Scene
Introduction
Within the contemporary art landscape—marked by pluralism of languages, digital experimentation, and cyclical returns to figuration—the work of Alessandro Cardamone stands out for its coherence, depth, and poetic continuity.
His artistic journey, developed over more than three decades, represents one of the most significant contemporary reinterpretations of spiritual Cubism and European symbolic figuration.
Starting from a formally rigorous language rooted in the early twentieth-century avant-garde, Cardamone has built a visual universe in which geometry becomes the language of interiority.
His female figures — suspended, silent, contemplative — embody an ideal balance between thought and form, between light and construction, between analysis and lyricism.
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Cardamone and the Contemporary Context: An Autonomous Position
In an international scene often dominated by post-conceptual practices, neo-expressionist figuration, and digital aesthetics, Cardamone asserts an independent voice.
While many contemporary artists oscillate between technological experimentation and narrative figuration, Cardamone chooses an inner path, reaffirming the value of painting as thought — as an instrument of aesthetic meditation and spiritual knowledge.
His art does not seek provocation but rather the persistence of meaning; it is not concerned with the surface of the visible, but with the depth of perception.
In this sense, his work resonates more closely with the legacy of Giorgio Morandi, Nicolas de Staël, Mark Rothko, or Sean Scully — artists for whom painting is a mental and spiritual space — rather than with the spectacular tendencies of globalized contemporary art.
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Dialogue with Tradition and Formal Innovation
Cardamone renews the vocabulary of Cubism without replicating it: his planes, intersections, and deconstructions are transformed into architectures of light, into chromatic scores that merge analytical structure with spiritual resonance.
Unlike the historical Cubists, his fragmentation does not aim to dismantle reality but to recompose it as an inner experience.
His painting thus becomes a form of poetic Cubism — a language that fuses geometric construction with emotional vibration, evoking the memory of European modernism while translating it into a contemporary, cosmopolitan sensibility open to dialogue between cultures and epochs.
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Themes and Poetics
The female figure — a central motif throughout his oeuvre — is never a realistic portrait but rather a universal archetype of consciousness.
In his most iconic cycles, such as Femme au Café du Louvre, Donna nella Torre (Woman in the Tower), and Donna in Attesa (Pregnant Woman), the woman becomes a symbol of interiority, contained energy, and contemplative stillness.
The surrounding space — a café, a room, a tower — is not a physical environment but a mental architecture, a projection of thought.
This poetics of silence and balance places Cardamone in a subtle dialogue with artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Alex Katz, David Hockney, and Marlene Dumas, though his vision is more introspective and spiritual: a metaphysical figuration of the everyday, where time seems suspended and light becomes thought.
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Influence and International Reception
In recent years, the international reception of Cardamone’s work — with exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Italy, and more recently in China at the Hong Art Museum in Chongqing (2023–2024) — has underscored his ability to engage in global artistic discourse while maintaining a personal and recognizable language.
His spiritual Neo-Cubism has been interpreted as an alternative path to postmodernism: a return to the depth of painting as a space of meditation.
Critics and curators have highlighted how his work bridges abstraction and figuration, analytical structure and sensitive perception, geometry and emotion.
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Critical Evaluation
Within the context of international contemporary art, Alessandro Cardamone can be regarded as a “contemporary classic” — an artist who, while fully embedded in modernity, restores to painting its ethical and spiritual vocation.
His coherence, the quality of his research, and his ability to merge structural analysis and emotional tension place him among those European painters who have preserved the contemplative dimension of art in an age dominated by immediacy and visual noise.
Conclusion
Alessandro Cardamone’s art can be defined as a geometry of the soul — a visual language uniting formal precision with inner mystery, light with memory, figure with symbol.
In the broader panorama of contemporary art, his work testifies to the enduring power of painting as a space of thought and spirituality, distant from noise yet close to essence.
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Curatorial Note
This presentation, written for the purpose of international art documentation, summarizes the significance of Alessandro Cardamone’s work as a meeting point between modern heritage and contemporary sensibility.
His presence in museum and private collections worldwide confirms the ongoing vitality of painting as a universal language of consciousness and creative silence.
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(Curatorial text written in Basel, 2025)
