AFAN Alessandro Fantini

Alessandro Fantini was born in Sangro Valley, Italy. His creative inclination arose during his early childhood when he began drawing comics and writing tales influenced by gothic authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan le Fanu. Disliking art school teachings, he learned oil painting techniques by himself and started painting his first canvases in 1993. During the nineties he developed his own visionary style blending the surrealist attitude with hyperrealism and Flemish painting methods. In 2002 he graduated with first class honours in modern literature with a thesis about the relationship between Italian culture and the PreRaphaelism.

Since 1998 he wrote, directed and produced movies and music videos digitally, composing also their soundtracks and writing lyrics for songs performed by himself. His short movies "Tiranti Transit" and "The road to Shakti" were broadcasted in 2006 and 2007 on European Sky Channels. He wrote and illustrated the book "The Night's Veil"(2006) and the dark-fantasy novel "Endometria"(2007) both published by Liberodiscrivere and presented at the International Turin book fair. His self-portrait was published in 2004 inside the Jean Michel Jarre's "Aero" album booklet. His artworks have been shown in several group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in Pescara, Turin,at the London Brick Lane Gallery, Rome Dorothy Circus Gallery and Los Angeles Flower Pepper Gallery.

In 2008 he released his first art book entitled "The Sinovial Gaze" covering more than a decade of painting activity.
In 2009 he directed and animated the music video of the international jazz musician Lorenzo Tucci's hit "The Sky".
In 2010 he directed the feature movie "EDOnism" filmed in Tokyo and produced by Lorenzo Fantini.
In 2012 he completed the experimental web series "Iconosphere".
In 2014 he directed and produced the mystery movie "New York, a venture" filmed in Manhattan.

Discography:

- The Bowl Fall Suite (2001)
- Rubedo (2001)
- Hill Raptures (2001)
- Insomnia to live (2001)
- Braille (2002)
- Opera Ville Diodati (2002)
- Glauben (2002)
- Gloomy Months (2002)
- Kryses (2002)
- Tat Tvam Asi (2002)
- Il Dittico delle Delizie soundtrack (2003)
- Azimut soundtrack (2003)
- I Mystai soundtrack
- A Glance Beyond soundtrack (2003)
- Venere Grave soundtrack (2003)
- Login Praeneste soundtrack (2004)
- Slave of Ratio (2004)
- Florebit (2004)
- Daimon soundtrack (2004)
- In the Mist of Future (2005)
- MDMA soundtrack (2005)
- Tiranti Transit soundtrack (2005)
- Aural (2005)
- Romanaclef (2006)
- Opera Trimurti (2006)
- Le Cornici della pioggia soundtrack (2006)
- La Strada per Shakti soundtrack (2007)
- Endometria suite (2007)
- aVoid soundtrack (2007)
- Colostro soundtrack (2008)
- NEPENTE soundtrack (2009)
- EDOnism soundtrack (2010)
- Epithell soundtrack (2011)
- The Century Gut (2011)
- Coltan (2012)
- Nyctalopia (2013)
-New York, a venture soundtrack(2014)
- Son of chasm (2015)
- Antalgica (2016)
- Gorgonia (2017)
- Trinity of Dementia (2018)

AFAN Alessandro Fantini’s tracks

• The Breeze Of An Eternal Snap - Excerpt by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• Ignorancid (radio edit) by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• Deeps of Gorgonia Excerpt by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN Alessandro Fantini - Aponia, second movement (excerpt) by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN&ARIANA Mitosis (excerpt) by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN&ARIANA-Blazing Frost by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN Alessandro Fantini - Antalgica by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN Alessandro Fantini - Wealthy Doom by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN Alessandro Fantini - If..! Hieratic remix (Jarre&Little Boots) by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
• AFAN Alessandro Fantini - Arkose (Zoolook revisited) by AFAN Alessandro Fantini