Alessandro Pongan is a visual designer who dedicate himself to art since two years ago.
He is currently developing a project addressing the issue of resilience. He creates sculptures and installations on a variable scale, from the very small to the monumental. The materials are mostly natural: bronze, steel, lava stone, sand, gypsum, nylon and inflatable installations.
All the works were produced in 2017, others are under study and costruiton during 2018.

Alessandro Pongan was born in La Spezia in 1963. Due to the moves of his father, an engineer, he grew up in many different cities and countries. From 1974 to 1981 he lived in Milan and Brazil, at Volta Redonda, in the inland zone near Rio de Janeiro, and in Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, a city-island surrounded by the Atlantic. In Vitória he completed his high school studies that began in Milan, taking a diploma in scientific studies. The period spent in South America has left its mark, in the form of a joyful, open perspective on life.
After returning to Milan, he went to the Scuola Politecnica di Design of Nino Di Salvatore, where he graduated in 1983 in Visual Design. His teachers included Heinz Waibl, Attilio Marcolli and Bruno Munari, who entered the classroom pronouncing phrases like “a tree is the very slow explosion of a seed” or “it should be understood that as long as art remains extraneous to the problems of life, it will interest only a few people.”
After working freelance for a few years, in 1988 he founded the studio Officina Design in Milan, which still operates today. In 1993-1994 he spent long periods in Athens as an art director and set designer of television programs for Ant1, a private national broadcasting network.
These professional experiences have allowed him to explore deeply the fields of graphic design, television, set design, computer animation, video production, web communications and installations, always making the force of design the central feature of his work.
His imagery is clear, confident, pithy and filmic. Latin passion combined with Nordic rationalism. This attraction to the north led him to the artistic and professional encounter with the Danish designer Hans Thyge, with whom he has done many projects, including the interactive section for children, the World of Glass, of the Glasmuseet of Ebeltoft.
The list of companies for which he has worked during almost three decades of career is a long one. In 2015, he designed the installations for the New Holland-Fiat Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015; he directed a television advertisement for Alessi using 3D techniques, and was responsible for the set design and artistic direction for the prize ceremony of the Sport Media Pearl Awards in Abu Dhabi.