Alessandro Dupré (aka Alex Çem Dupré) was born in 1987 in Latina, Lazio. Around the age of 12 he attended extracurricular painting and sculpture courses with the artist Giuseppe Conte. After high school he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he obtained various awards including a scholarship as an assistant to the Painting chair and participated in various group exhibitions. In those years he obtained an Erasmus scholarship in Spain, in Salamanca. After graduating he moved to France for a few years, where he looked for new training experiences. He later returned to Italy to follow the entire painting program at the Florence Academy of Art, and was awarded a scholarship as an assistant to the art history seminars during the third year. He currently collaborates with PADASOR (artstudiorome.com), a well-known atelier in Rome, in the Trastevere district, directed by the American painter Tim Joseph Allen. "The chromatic richness of Renaissance paintings made me think that those painters did not paint the clothes and draperies but rather dressed the colors. It was clear to me that those clothes were subordinate to the compositional and chromatic possibilities that color possesses autonomously. The subjects of the paintings are only "cutouts" of plastic and chromatic elements to define an accidental vision of reality. The anatomical body and references to sexuality are desecrating elements of the impulse and inhibitory instances of the human being. So my research looks at the evocative possibilities of color in the various textures of the real world. But the idea is to distract attention from the figurative pretext to suggest the most ethereal and ephemeral thing found in objects (clothes, flesh, etc.), trying to extract the aesthetic matter from them. In this sense, my painting wants to "sweep away" the subject, leaving anonymous spaces, sometimes white, as the zero point of the elements. "