Carlotta
Alberti

Carlotta Alberti (born 1973, Lugano) lives and works in the Alps, where she has long nurtured a deep and intimate connection with the mountains. Drawing is the core of her practice, through which she transforms her personal experiences of mountaineering into an artistic language interweaving perception, emotion, and memory.

Working across oil painting, ink, engraving, and water-based techniques, she explores the sensory dimensions of high-altitude environments. Her gaze is attuned to both the unyielding energy of the mountains and the precarious nature of their glaciers. Her works focus on rendering (im)perceptible atmospheric and geological changes, achieved through a calibrated use of form, light, and shadow, suspended in a continuous dialogue between abstraction and figuration.

Alberti’s process begins with a sustained act of listening to the mountain’s murmurs. Guided by the golden ratio, she translates the volumes of glacial and rocky formations into visible form, allowing their material presence to emerge on canvas. Her palette of blue and white hues concentrates the viewer’s perception, leading them emotionally towards the alpine subject.

Rooted in familial memory, Alberti approaches the mountain not as an inert object, but as a living presence, a place where an awareness of impermanence is made manifest. Her 2021 series Peut-être reflects on mutability accelerated by the climate crisis, capturing the passage of time through shifting sunlight on the southwest face of the Matterhorn. Though the viewpoint appears constant across the twenty paintings, each canvas records a moment marked by transformation, disappearance, or loss. Her practice thus becomes a form of resistance; a visual testimony to what stands on the verge of vanishing.

Alberti’s solo and group exhibitions include I Silenzi delle Alpi (2021) and Resa al paesaggio (2019). Her work was featured in the documentary Beautiful Alps (2021), produced by the Japanese broadcaster NHK, and has received support from institutions such as the Italian Cultural Institute in Rio de Janeiro. It was also presented at international events including the Women in Art Biennale (2024).