FABRIZIO BELLOMO
Concrete Albania
Published by: Onufri Librari
Curated by: Elton Koritari
Printed by: Gent Grafik
Graphic by: Friccicarella Film
Concrete Albania is an attempt to understand a country through what it has poured, spread, smoothed.
Through what it has covered—and what it has forgotten.
Because, at the end, concrete is an archive.
Yesterday concrete defined the East. Today the world is united by LED?
Welcome to Concrete Albania
Fabrizio Bellomo (Bari, 1982) is an Italian artist, photographer and filmmaker.
He took part in the 16th and 19th editions of the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia and in international film festivals, including the Torino Film Festival, where he won the Special Jury Prize in the Documentary section with the film Commedia all’Italiana.
He has held solo exhibitions at Italian and international institutions, including Abito Mari at Gocat by Fondazione Mane in Tirana, ‘Nziembru at Fondazione Elpis in Milano, and Meccanicismo at the Kulturni Centar Beograda.
His works are included in public and private collections, like ICCD collection in Roma, MuNaF and nctm collections in Milano.
Fabrizio Bellomo has published several books, including Villaggio Cavatrulli, published by Centro Di in Florence and Homo Medium by Quinlan in San Severino Marche. He worked with public art too, and in the last years he made several public installations for different institutions among them Fondazione Menna in Salerno.