digital photography on brushed aluminum
limited edition of 5 80x120cm prints
SELF-EMBRACE (2020)
DIE TÄNZERIN (2021)
MALIBU BOULEVARD (2009)
THE SPACE BETWEEN #1 (2016)
ARLECCHINO (2014)
THE GATHERING (2014)
DUE COLORI (2014)
The photo series DALLE CENERI was captured by Alessandro Corsini at the Cretto, a land-art memorial created by artist Alberto Burri. This artwork commemorates the town of Gibellina, Sicily, Italy, which was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. The town was later rebuilt nearby, but the rubble of the original town was used to make the concrete for this project. During the shoot, a fire was ravaging the nearby countryside. The Cretto is not only a work of art but also a symbol of rebirth and transformation. “Dalle Ceneri” means “from the ashes” in Italian.
"Berlin is poor but sexy" is the saying. Berlin is celebrated for its cultural openness and alternative lifestyles. Iconic Berlin clubs foster an environment for unconventional desires and hedonistic adventures. This legacy of sexual liberation, rooted in the Weimar Republic, thrives today through events like Fetish Week and a progressive approach to sexual rights. With its vibrant LGBTQ+ community and inclusive venues, Berlin champions sexual freedom and expression. POOR BUT KINKY is a work-in-progress, street-photography series shot in Berlin by Alessandro Corsini.
WHITE BOX (when the world suddenly shrank)
is a photographic series shot in Berlin, Germany, by Alessandro Corsini during the first lockdown of the covid pandemic in 2020. It was first published as photographic book in 2021. It was then exhibited at the LiTE-HAUS gallery in Berlin during the Berlin Art Week in September 2024 (6 prints on Ilford paper).
"At the latest when the lockdown kicked in, endangering whole sectors of the economy, and the restrictive measures made their way into our everyday lives, people were vigorously reminded of how fragile their existences, freedoms, and privileges are. And if the pandemic did hit different countries with varying degrees of intensity, the vacuum left behind ..... affected the whole world in the same manner.
That psychological space, void and claustrophobic at the same time, is what I originally set off to explore." (Corsini, White Box, introduction)
HOLY & BROKEN is a collection of candid digital photos captured by Alessandro Corsini in various locations throughout the years, available as limited-edition photographic prints on brushed aluminum. Its theme is faith. Born an atheist—untypically for Italians—this collection was inspired by A.C.’s lifelong process of researching different world religions, recognizing the importance of faith as a fundamental force in life, and ultimately uncovering his own spirituality.
In his essay “The Painter of Modern Life” (1863), Baudelaire describes the flâneur as a “gentleman stroller of the city streets,” an observer who takes in the spectacles of modern urban life with a detached, aesthetic perspective. The flâneur embodies the spirit of modernity, someone who experiences the city as both a participant and a spectator, moving through the crowd yet remaining distinct from it. FLÂNEUR is a street-photography collection captured by Alessandro Corsini throughout the years in various locations.
The universe is estimated to be approximately 13.8 billion years old and to contain about 2 trillion galaxies. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to between 100 to 400 billion stars, one of which is our sun. Earth is only one among estimated billions of trillions of planets in the universe. Within this immense cosmic system in constant evolution and expansion, our planet, in constant transformation since its origin around 4.54 billion years ago, is like a grain of sand in a desert. And our lives are just footprints on that grain of sand, bound to withstand the winds of time for what amounts to an instant in the universe’s infinite timeline. The photo series THE SPACE BETWEEN captures, within a two-dimensional rectangular frame, a fraction of a second of a tiny fragment of planet Earth, as seen through the eyes of an ever-evolving, ephemeral conglomerate of stardust that identifies as Alessandro Corsini. Undoubtedly irrelevant within such a grand system, yet capable of awe for being part of it.
THE BROTHERHOOD is a documentary photo series shot by Alessandro Corsini in December 2015 for the Guadalajara-based animal rights association “Calle Cero” . Cofradìa means “brotherhood” in Spanish. “La Cofradìa en Tlaquepaque” is one of the poorest areas in Mexico. Situated in the outskirts of Guadalajara (Jalisco), the economy of this neighborhood relied for decades exclusively on the family-run manufacturing of clay construction bricks. A couple of decades ago, as the mass production of construction bricks took over, the whole area fell into a deep state of poverty and decay, as unemployment, school dropout rates and criminality rose. On top of that, la Cofradìa was hit, like other parts of Mexico, by the plague of stray dogs and cats. Hoards of malnourished, untamed and often aggressive animals roamed the dirt roads of the area in desperate search for food, occasionally invading peoples’ domestic spaces in the pursuit. Despite hundreds of them getting run over by cars, starving to death or dying due to miserable health conditions, their population nevertheless kept growing as they endlessly bred in an uncontrollable fashion. With locals increasingly perceiving them as a threat, the cases of brutal violence and animal killings escalated. In a space offering very limited resources, humans and stray animals seemed to be doomed to confront each other in an ever-escalating fight for survival. In the last few years though, as Mexican animal-rights associations pushed forward the sterilization of pets and street animals, concurrently promoting, mainly through schools, a culture of responsibility and respect, things have started changing. The population of stray animals went down and people’s attitude towards them started gradually shifting. With kids at the forefront of this small cultural revolution, a new sense of solidarity between humans and animals started to emerge in La Cofradìa.
CODE:DRESS is a 2013 no-budget fashion film written, co-produced, directed, and edited by Alessandro Corsini. Building on the highly experimental approach of fashion films, a genre that at the time was a melting pot of influences and was boldly pushing the creative boundaries of visual storytelling, this short film is a tongue-in-cheek, East Berlin, retro-style reverie of a bored and unlikely fashion designer. CODE:DRESS has been nominated at the 6th edition of ASVOFF in Paris - the oldest and most acclaimed fashion film festival -, featured on international fashion publications like Not Just a Label, and screened at several prestigious venues, including the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Center of Modern Art ‘Zarya’ in Vladivostok, and Babylon Cinema in Berlin.
The photo collection “L’altro” (from Italian “The Other”) contains both candid and posed portraits, captured throughout the years by Alessandro Corsini. By breaking away from basic photographic conventions, the series invites a reflection on identity, connection, and the often blurred lines that define who we are in relation to those around us.
The photographic collection NOTE LIBERATE captures photographic details of the carvings that cut across the surface of Pinuccio Sciola’s sound stones (Pietre Sonore), sculptures capable of transforming the oldest and most primordial material, stone, into an instrument that produces deep sounds, evoking the relationship between man and nature in an ancestral and universal dimension. Captured in August 2024, the collection moves toward increasing abstraction, in a photographic journey where the marks initially evoke musical staves, waveforms, shapes, and musical instruments, only to progressively distance themselves (or “free themselves”) from them.
The ELECTROPOLIS series (2014) contains photos that, aside from basic contrast and saturation adjustments, are unaltered and presented just as captured by Alessandro Corsini. It draws inspiration from abstract, expressionist painting. By combining daytime long-shutter speeds with deliberate camera movement during exposure, the resulting ‘motion blur’, similarly to the brush strokes of a painter, becomes an expressive medium in itself. Some shots were taken while I was in motion, such as on a train, other times, the camera’s movement was a result of a spontaneous experimentation with gestures and body movement while holding the camera during exposure.
UN PICCOLO PRESTIGIATORE (A little Magician) is a 2010 low-budget short film conceived, produced, and directed by Alessandro Corsini for the communication campaign for the National Information Day on Parkinson's disease. Commissioned by LIMPE (Association for the Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease, Extrapyramidal Syndromes, and Dementias), the project aimed at raising awareness on Parkinson's through a short fictional story. Written and performed by Wigand Lange, award-winning German author affected by the disease, the film revisits his true story in the form of a fairy tale, narrating a pianist’s strange encounter with a mischievous dwarf. Well beyond its original purpose, the short film managed to involve a number of prestigious names in the film industry (e.g., Dario Marianelli, Paul Moriarty), was dubbed in English and subtitled in 3 more languages, was watched online by tens of thousands of people, and was nominated and screened at festivals (e.g., Kalat Nissa Film Festival, Milano Film Festival).
DIGITAL SHADOWS was an artistic, interactive video-installation co-created in 2006 by A. Corsini, F. Meier, M. Fröhlich, and F. Wohlgemuth. Using cameras, projectors, and large projection surfaces like facades and shop windows, the artwork, controlled by Max MSP/Jitter software, provided a metaphor for the relationship between real and digital identities.