Ricardo Fernandez Alberti

Fernandez Alberti’s work is like an archive of symbols, moments and words
that produce their own language.Combining elements of abstraction, expressionism,
figurative, minimal art, art brut or cartoons to produce an original and powerful work.

Through reflecting subjects that are very personal, taken them from friends, newspaper,
magazines, internet, history books, every day life situations and the like. He invites the
viewer to share his very own private thoughts.
Fernandez Alberti social, political and philosophical concerns are 
reflected in his work, producing statements and concerning questions 
on our behavior.

The use and exploration of different techniques, and the play with 
words and numbers are a good way for him to visualize the constant 
changes in the society and the media.
The use of traditional painting is a good contrast to contrast itself 
and to measure with all those changes, where the new print and media 
technologies have been easily manipulating the arts for the past last 
decade; he turns back to the tradition of painting as the universal-language-kind.

Ricardo Fernandez Alberti was born in Punta del Este, Uruguay and 
grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been living in Bern since 1988 and
became a Swiss citizen in 1998.
From 1990 until 1996 he worked in Bern as movie projectionist and 
decorator, in 1994 he started his studies in communication design at 
Art Center Europe. A year later he moved to California and completed 
the studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, USA. In 1998 
soon after graduation, he started to work in Switzerland for 
different advertising agencies. During all these years he has been 
working parallel on his paintings and photography producing a self 
revealing work.