Alessandro Papetti is an italian painter, born in Milan in 1958 where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited his works in important international art fairs and collaborated with numerous galleries in Italy and abroad. From 1995 to 2000 he worked between Milan and Paris. Among his exhibitions in public spaces and museum we mention: on the subject of industrial archeology the exhibition at the Civic Museums of Villa Manzoni in Lecco in 1996. In the same year, the strength of the image, “La pittura del Realismo in Europa,” held at Martin-Gropius Bau from Berlin as well as the “Sui Generis” exhibition at PAC in Milan, curated by Alessandro Riva. Between 2003 and 2004 he was invited to take part in numerous museum exhibitions such as the exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Testori at the Palazzo Reale in Milan and the exhibition “La ricerca dell’identità” curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and exhibited in various public spaces in Italy. In 2005 the Mudima Foundation dedicated a first retrospective to him entitled “Il disagio della pittura”. In 2007 at the Musée des Années 30 in Paris, in an exhibition entitled “Île Seguin” he exhibited a series of paintings dedicated to the Renault factories. Also in 2007, Vittorio Sgarbi invited him to participate at the exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan “Arte Italiana, 1968-2007”. In September 2009, Palazzo Reale in Milan hosts his personal exhibition “Il ciclo del tempo” curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. In 2010, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo hosts the artist’s first solo show in Japan, entitled “Dynamic Spaces”. In the same year, Villa Manin of Codroipo produced the personal “Occhi e lune” by Marco Goldin, in conjunction with the retrospective dedicated to Edvard Munch. In 2011 he exhibited at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Art “L’arte non è cosa nostra” by Vittorio Sgarbi and the Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba. From 2012 is the personal at the Museum of Architecture in Moscow “Le fabbriche dell’utopia”. In 2014 Luca Beatrice curates the exhibition at Palazzo Penna in Perugia “La pelle attraverso”. In November 2015 he presented the result of a new pictorial research in Rome at the Central Institute for Graphics at Palazzo Poli, entitled “Io abito qui”. In the catalogue the texts of Massimo Recalcati, Pia Capelli and Fabio Fiorani. In 2016 a do-cumentary about his activity is filmed for Sky Arte. In 2017 he exhibited his “Paesagginterni” exhibition at the Marca Museum, curated by Marco Bazzini. 

On the occasion of Miart in 2018, Gallerie d’Italia will showcase in Milan a preview of the pictorial installation “Paesaggiointerno”, which is currently part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s collection. In 2021 he participates to “Quirinale Contemporaneo” exhibition in Rome, curated by Renata Mazzantini, and his painting is added to the Quirinale’s permanent art collection. In 2024 he was invited to participate to the exhibitions “Ungaretti poeta e soldato. Il Carso e l’anima del mondo. Poesia pittura storia.” at the Santa Chiara Museum in Gorica and “Da Boccioni a Martini. Arte nelle Venezie al tempo di Ungaretti”, at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea in Monfalcone, both cureted by Marco Goldin on the occasion of Gorica – Capital of Cuture 2025.