Alex Dorici
Born in 1979 in Lugano from an Italo-Portuguese family.He studied at the artistic high school G. Terragni, Como, at the SUPSI, Lugano, and the Accademia Aldo Galli, Como where in 2005 he obtained his degree in etching and painting He worked for 5 years in Paris. He lives and works in Lugano.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Special award “Artist in Gallery”, international competition Arte Laguna Prize, Venice
2017 Honorable Mention by the Académie de Lettres et Arts Luso-Suísse for the spread
and development of Portuguese culture abroad
2015 First prize for the realization of the work Installation ROPE 250 light in the atrium
of the former primary school of Pregassona (Lugano)
2014 The Bally Foundation for Culture has named Alex Dorici as Bally Artist of the Year
The CULT TV program of the Radio Televisione della Svizzera Italiana (RSI),
which oversees cultural and artistic promotion nominates Alex Dorici
as its: "Artist Cult 2013"
2013 Gino and Gianna Macconi M.A.X. Museum Chiasso, youth prize competition, special mention
with the installation Kilometer Zero
2012 Selection for the cantonal competition Kunst und Bau, Kantonsspital, Obwalden
2004 2nd place, Vittorio Viviani Prize, Milan
2nd prize at the Biennale d'incisione, Como
2003 1st prize with the short film “Saudade Itamar” in the video section of the Angelo Tenchio
Study Competition, Como
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2019 NeuralRope#1. Inside an Artificial Brain, realized together with Luca Gambardella
pedestrian tunnel Lugano-Besso
Portugal al cubo #729, Scuola Media Caslano
2018 Scotch Drawing16042018 white, urban intervention realized
at the Valsangiacomo Centre, Chiasso
2017 Portugal al cubo #245, Restaurant Agua, Lugano
2016 Azulejos Light Line 844, Buchmann Galerie, Agra
Installation Rope 300 meters Light, Torre del Capitano, Morcote
2015 Installation ROPE 250 light, Punto Città, Lugano-Pregassona
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Diario di Viaggio, Buchmann Lugano
2019 Dois Quartos 2/4, Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto
2018 Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno
2017 Portugal al cubo #729, Buchmann Lugano
#9 Rooms, Museo Villa Pia, Porza
2015 Pointillism Garden Balls #2, Buchmann Lugano
Cromie, personal exhibition of etchings and prints from the Parisian period 2005-201
at "Il brunitoio sala Panizza", Ghiffa
2014 3D light cube, Galleria Arrivada, Chur
Save the Whale, installation realized for the Longlake Urban Art Festival Lugano
2013 Scotch Drawing 07072013, urban intervention realized in the great hall of the Università
della Svizzera italiana, promoted by Arte Urbana Lugano on the occasion of Street Art
Longlake Festival
Videoinstallazione extra muros, curated by Riccardo Lisi
Spazio d’arte contemporanea Larada Locarno
in collaboration with i2A of Vico Morcote
2012 Social Implosion, curated by Michele Balmelli,Artelier, Lugano
2011 Stiamo lavorando per voi, curated by Valeria Donnarumma and Arte Urbana Lugano,
Exhibition space Lab-Comacina, Lugano
2010 Installazione modulare # 1000 Color, curated by Marcel Scheidegger
work commissioned by graphic arts industry Fratelli Roda, Taverne
2008 Cube de la paix, curated by the cultural services of the city of Malakoff, Paris
Installazione modulare #664, curated by Hervé Gérland, ex Cinema Marcel Puyol, Paris
2007 Installazione modulare #1140 moduli, Artelier,Lugano
2006 Filosofia della forma, curated by Vítor Nogueira and Alexandro Castro, Centro culturale di
Vila Real e Bragança (Portogallo)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Biennale Bregaglia 2020, Bondo-Promontogno, Val Bregaglia
Bex Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture
2019 Begegnungen 2019, Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhügel Chur
2018 neoscope 18 - Junge Kunst reflektiert zofiscope 1974, installazione Azulejo Light Line
e performance Scotch Drawing, Kunsthaus Zofingen Jetzt Kunst no°6
Max Frisch Bad, Zurich
Lo spazio ritrovato, Rassegna d’arte pubblica, Morcote
Sm’arte 2018, Street Art Festival, Braganca, Portugal
2017 Ceramica / Céramique / Keramik, with Tony Cragg, Alberto Garutti
Martin Disler Bettina Pousttchi, Thomas Virnich
Véronique Arnold, Buchmann Galerie, Agra
2016 Un percorso d’arte, Parco Scherrer, Morcote
2015 Jungkunst, Container museum, Winterthur
Flowers for you, Buchmann Galerie Agra
Nulla dies sine linea, con Zimoun , Arlette Ochsner, Monika Feucht , Maja Rieder,
Kunsthaus, Zofingen
2014 Seguire il filo del discorso, with Marco D’Anna (photographs)
Alberto Garutti (artwork), Buchmann Galerie Agra/Lugano
It’s About Time, curated by Daniela Hermosilla, Alte Kindl Brauerei, Berlin
2013 Artelier 14°. Group exhibition by Alex Dorici, Luigi Boccadamo
Daniel Kemeny and Andreas Fischbach, curated by Michele Balmelli, Artelier, Lugano
Premio Giovani artisti 2013, Fondazione Gino a Gianna Macconi with M.A.X Museo, Chiasso
L’AM. L’arte della memoria, curated by EGO Gallery and Ticinooff
Villa Ambrosetti, Gentilino
Lightness, curated by Paola Silvia Ubiali
Galleria Marella arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo
Arspolis #3, contemporary art event in the city, curated by Michele Balmelli, Lugano
2012 Jungkunst, curated by Martin Landolt, Halle 52 Winterthur
KunstNacht, curated by Richard Tisserand, Kreuzlingen
Lightness Collective Show, curated by Maria Grazia Lurgo, MyaLurgo Gallery, Lugano
2011 Going Public, curated by Paolo Bianchi, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich
Open Gallery #2, Coldretor, curated by Riccardo Lisi, Artelier, Lugano
2008 Paristoutcourt, 6° International Short Film Festival, Paris
L’Atelier Contrepoint alla Maat Gallery, curated by Matej Longyka, Maat Gallery, Paris
2007 L’arte del torchio. Esposizione collettiva dell’Atelier 17 di Parigi, Palazzo Civico, Cremona
Biennial of engraving, City of Evora (Portugal)
