Alberto Abate, between the late 1970s and early 1980s, was one of the great protagonists of two specific and contiguous designations: anachronism and Pittura Colta. It is these two propositions that define his debut years in the pictorial and figurative spheres, coming to him from earlier conceptual and behavioral trials. Disappeared in 2012, the time now seems to have come for a reinterpretation of his poetics, which, after the aforementioned experiences, was all defined in a context of continuous research in the evolutionary awareness of figural narrative, but always remaining faithful to his own specific stylistic figure.

Important paintings from the past three decades that have marked the special attention of many art lovers to Abate’s pictorial quality, some of whom turned out to be genuine fans, are published here.

We move, then, from the mythological insights that connote the beginnings in the 1980s, to the symbolic and sapiential narratives, in which the levels of reading are multiplied, of the 1990s; up to the evidence of the first decade of the new century that enhances the dialogue of figures with geometric forms of consolidated cubo-futurist and neo-constructivist structure.