Alberto Ballocca
Italian contemporary artist specialized in diachronic approaches on ancient cultures, natural patterns accordingly to Jungian theories.
Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993, Turin, Italy) works across painting and sculpture through a process rooted in instinct, accumulation, and deliberate surrender to the unknown. His pigments are sourced rather than purchased — volcanic rock dust, ochre extracted from ancient woodland soils outside Turin, industrial dye reclaimed from textile production, high-resistance mineral pigments used in antiquity restoration — bound with water, Arabic gum, or dilute acrylic in proportions governed by perception rather than formula. Material is not a vehicle but a threshold: Ballocca treats its behavior under gravity, humidity, and absorption as structural to the work’s meaning, allowing images to surface organically rather than be imposed.
His sculptures extend this logic through discarded and obsolete technological objects — salvaged circuit boards, redundant hardware, spent consumer electronics — approached not as commentary on digital excess but as archaeological material, selected for symbolic weight rather than former function. The understanding that what a civilization discards often contains the only genuine intuitions from which new form can grow sits at the core of this work. Drawing on the ancient Greek concept of Kairos — qualitative, charged time as opposed to administered clock time — Ballocca locates meaning in the interval between gesture and construction, between natural pigment and industrial residue, between the ancient and the technological. His practice finds in that suspension a space where something genuinely new becomes possible.
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Produced by Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Gimpo-Si Corea
Interview on Substack
Cycladic Amethysts
Booming Art Fair, on view at ‘Palazzo Isolani, Bologna’
February 5 – February 8, 2026
Memory Car, 2025
Acrylics, oil, ink and pigments on canvas, 75 x 60 x 4 cm
CICA Museum, on view at ‘Contemporay Landscape’
January 2 – January 18, 2026
Collection of Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Corea
Photosynthesis, Mixedmedia on canvas.
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Art Rewards Gallery
Living Art Collections and Symbolic Narratives.
A conversation with Alberto Ballocca on his vision of interconnected works, natural codes, and timeless philosophies.
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Ftèri – Φτέρη
Tecnica: Mixedmedia su canvas. Pigmenti, acrilici, disegni, collages, olio, pastelli, sprays e grafite su tela
2025
Dimensione: 150 x 120 cm
Mater Acqua – 水
Mixedmedia. Photograph, oil pastels, pigments, ink and sprays on forex panel
In collaboration with Sauar
Fine Art Prints
‘Ultra’, new group exhibition in Turin city curated by Arteaporte within Diffusissima Official
From 23 of October until 6th of November
“Ball 6 6 6”
Mixedmedia on paper
Collection of Archivio Di Mauro
Intimacy, 2025
Acrylics, oil, ink and pigments on canvas, 15.35″ x 11.02″ x 1.8″
Private collection
Elements Qualia
Nature & Love
Exhibition curated by Master Ruha Gallery.
From 03.08.2024 until 04.09.2024.
Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong – Beijing, Qingdao, China.
Natural Elements and Philosophical Depth: The Story of OnYOn.
“If nature is ethical, It provides transformation, which is the ability of fire.”
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‘l’Etica del Fuoco’, Clay-based mixedmedia sculpture.
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‘Fear is Ego’ Mixedmedia on wood panel, 2022. Private collection
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Sculptures by Alberto Ballocca
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