Episode 9: Architect turned artist Alessandro Giorgi drawing Sicily

Episode 9: Architect turned artist Alessandro Giorgi drawing Sicily

Season 3 Sicily

Boazn, 2024, Alessandro Giorgi

Alessandro Giorgi joins Art Destinations Sicily to reflect on his childhood in a remote Sicilian fishing village Torretta Granitola which he describes as an “island within an island”. His childhood memories of migrant boats arriving from North Africa in the night and the unspoken presence of the Mafia have found their way into his art. Alessandro discusses his shift from architecture to art, and how drawing became both a meditative practice and a democratic tool.

Alessandro’s work flows across mediums—murals, stop-motion, and fluid drawings. His imagery responds to the rhythms of the sea, resisting borders and tracing connections across place and imagination.

BIOGRAPHY

Alessandro Giorgi is a Sicilian artist based between Munich and Torretta Granitola, a small fishing village on the southwest coast of Sicily. With a background in architecture between Italy and Germany, he explores the intersection of visual storytelling and drawing across different media. Like an island connected to everything through the sea, Giorgi’s work seeks to link seemingly divided elements, revealing the web of transformations and interactions that shape ecosystems and lives.