Alessandro Busci: Urban Landscapes as Mental States

Alessandro Busci is an Italian painter who has elevated urban landscape painting over the past 25 years, transforming views of Milan, London, and Paris—including disused factories, airports, stadiums, construction sites, and suburbs—into psychological conditions. His work treats the contemporary city as a mental state, capturing memories and emotions through light, rust, water, reflections, and wet asphalt. Busci's approach makes the viewer experience the city as one might a nocturnal storm, being struck by sensory details. The article, published on Artuu, explores how his paintings turn non-places into a collective visual imagination.