Born in Brescia in 1983, he lives and works in Brescia, on the outskirts of Franciacorta. Alessandro Bulgarini's painting is an introspective and symbolic art, linked to the study of the imaginary world and archetypes. Philosophy and anthropology, psychology and imagination are the cornerstones of an original research, a solitary path, the outcome of which is a surreal syncretic iconography that questions the observer on the mystery of life and man, his paradigms, his anxieties, the search for the sacred. Painting is Philosophical to the extent that it recalls the philosophical, esoteric and cognitive potential of imagination and symbol. Each work is equivalent to the compositional reorganization of a precise concept, idea or reflection and is conceived as a stratagem to reawaken in the observer a question - generally dormant - on what he is looking at. Enigmas posed in terms of images, to stimulate the sometimes amazed and sometimes disturbed reflection of the observer. Through the recovery of the image-icon, materialized on the canvas in the luminous form of oil painting - intended as an antidote to the simulacra produced by the postmodern "liquid civilization" - his work speaks to us of the importance of the imaginative function and imaginal thought, about which some of the refined thinkers who continue to inspire him have written a lot: Carl Gustav Jung, Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin, Elémire Zolla. A profound and avant-garde cultural heritage that constitutes the foundation and the interpretative key of the painter's aesthetic choice. After the encounter with the father of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, the original surrealist nature and visionary inspiration have enriched and intertwined with the study of the techniques and masters of the Renaissance, Neoplatonism, the ancient alchemical manuscripts and medieval herbals, up to the iconographies and cosmogonies of ancient civilizations. Inexhaustible sources from which to draw to distill visions full of meaning, then translated into the language of a contemporary figuration. Alessandro has always expressed himself using the techniques he learned as a child in his grandfather Serafino Zanella's atelier, reworked and perfected over the years and personalized in the choice of colors and subjects. The drawings are made with charcoal, pencils and pigments on different and fine types of paper, often also "handmade", found at selected artisan paper mills. The paintings are executed with the glazing technique typical of oil painting, in the manner of the ancients, on canvases and boards prepared with a traditional priming based on chalk and glue. Alessandro's work constitutes a complex gallery of meanings and enigmas, in which the imagination takes shape through a fervent surreal realism; a precise and conscious invitation to let yourself be seduced by the wisdom that lies in the images.