Alessandro Guerriero

Biography


In 1976 he founded Alchimia, one of the most vital groups in the evolution of Italian post avant-garde design.

In 1982 he was awarded the Compasso d'Oro for his design work.

Some of the major installations he produced with Alchimia include: La Stanza del Secolo at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara; Elogio del Banale for the Venice Biennale; Architettura Ermafrodita at the PAC in Milan; Mobile Infinito at the Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo and Kyoto; the Stanza Fin-de-siecle at Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
He has published various books with Alchimia including Elogio del Banale, Moderno Postmoderno Millenario, Progetto Infelice, Architecture in Love, Disegni Alchimia.

His works can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, at the Twentieth-Century Design Collection, at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, at the Groningen Museum in Holland, at the Louisiana Museum fur Moderne Kunst, the Kunstmuseum of Dusseldorf and at the Boston Museum of Modern Art.

He has put his name to several architectural projects: the Casa della Felicita for the Famiglia Alessi in Omegna; the Torre Civica of Gibellina; the Art Museum of the City of Groningen in Holland (with Alessandro Mendini, Philippe Starck, Michele de Lucchi, and Coop Himmelblau). At the end of 1996 he began work on the project for the new Benetton Museum with Oliviero Toscani, while, more recently, he has designed a small town close to Rome on behalf of Bastogi and the exhibition for the centenary of FIAT.

He is a professor at the Politecnico of Milan as well as President and Artistic Director of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in that same city.

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