Alberto Picco
Alberto Picco (Buenos Aires, 1950) lives in Lisbon. Since the 1990s, his work has focused on research into Territory and Memory, examining their occupation, use, transformation and/or abandonment. Following on from his projects on Landscape in the last decade of the 20th century, since 2002 he has been developing inner maps of urban territories that relate to memory, place, and identity.
He considers himself a dilettante scholar of Territory and the City, seeking to understand the city’s layout through photography and to use it as a means of making aesthetic interventions in built spaces. He was a founding member of the Diferença art cooperative and gallery, and a photojournalist for the weekly newspaper O Independente.
His approach to photography is formal in style, which proves to be an advantage, as it highlights the unique way in which he captures the triviality of reality, imbuing it with the impartiality and aesthetic sensibility that are characteristic of him as an author. The extensive body of work he has produced in this field lends him a coherent and authoritative voice.
