Artist Post- Alberto Seveso

    Alberto Seveso was borin in Milan, Italy in 1976 and started doing artwork in 1990. He decided to go into graphic design and photography because he was fascinated with skate decks and the cover of CD's from metal bands. He never went to an art school and is completely self taught. He started with using Deluxe Paint and Photoshop and was also a street artist. He then moved to Rome where he began his career as a graphic designer/illustrator. He has spent some time experimenting with high speed photography and ink.

     His work seems to be mainly portraits and also ink. He uses lots of color and other images to put into portraits to transform the face. He makes it seem like the face is made out of something else. In the top picture he uses his ink photography as hair for the woman. The second one seems to be more a floral and linear design. The third one is just ink and the fourth is also a portrait with what looks like just different splats of color and ink in the background. Most all of his pictures are very colorful with a dark background. I really like what he does and it makes the faces almost unrecognizable but you can still see the eyes and basic facial form. It really makes you look deeper into the picture to see what all is in there. It is almost impossible to see everything at times and kind of hurts my eyes but I enjoy looking at them. 

    I really enjoy his work because I am really into photography and specifically portrait photography. In high school I did a project with ink and water so that was another thing that I have in common with him. I have never experimented with portrait photography and photoshop the way he does and I am really interested in trying something like this. I am not sure what the actual meaning of his work is but it seems like he is just having fun and finding a new way to make portrait images. He uses lots of color and shapes and makes you question whats real and what is fake. Sometimes the faces are almost completely unrecognizable and sometimes you can see the entire face like the top picture.

Bon Expose

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