Alberto Scodro (b. 1984) is an Italian contemporary sculptor and installation artist whose work explores the relationships between space, time, and matter through transformative material processes. Born in 1984 in Marostica, in the Vicenza province of Italy, Scodro has established himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary sculpture.
He studied pictorial restoration at I.RI.GEM from 2003 to 2005, then pursued Visual Arts and Theatre at IUAV in Venice, graduating in 2009, where he studied under curator and theorist Nicolas Bourriaud. His early hands-on experience in ceramics factories, art archiving, and object design provided foundational knowledge of materials and craft processes.
Scodro's sculptures arise from an extensive process of collecting, alchemical transforming, and stacking to eventually arrive at forms reminiscent of crystals, coral reefs, and other geological structures. He works with both pristine natural materials and technological components—lamps, sockets, and other industrially produced objects—which he transforms through intense heat and chemical processes. This approach bridges the daily reality of contemporary life with primordial landscapes, compressing geological time into the duration of a kiln firing.
His works possess a natural logic while remaining connected to the contexts from which they emerge and in which they are (temporarily) placed. Living and working between Vicenza, Italy, and Brussels, Belgium, Scodro has exhibited extensively across Europe and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections.