Andreco was born in Rome in 1978, lives between Bologna and New York, is a PhD in Environmental Engineering on urban sustainability, has conducted post-doctoral research on the environmental benefits of urban green technologies in collaboration with the University of Bologna and Columbia University in New York. Since 2000, in parallel with his scientific training, he has been carrying on his artistic research. In recent years the two researches, artistic and scientific, have merged in a single multidisciplinary research that has as its main theme: the relationship between urban space and natural landscape and between man and the environment in all its forms. The works produced by Andreco synthesize the concepts at the basis of his research into symbols, images that go to compose his visual and conceptual language.
Andreco uses various techniques, from drawing to painting, from sculpture to video, which are often combined in exhibitions; he creates installations in closed spaces, murals and public art projects sometimes supported by a participatory path. Andreco has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Europe, the United States and Asia.
In 2013 Andreco participated in “Open in Painting” curated by Gianluca D’inca Levis for Dolomiti Contemporanee, he created a permanent sculpture at the Wilhelmsburg park in Hamburg for “Unkraut, Dockville Kunst Camp” and a permanent wall painting in Piedmont for “Fermenti Musei”.
In 2012 he created the wall painting “The Philosophycal tree” for the festival “Frontier” organized by the Municipality of Bologna, sponsored by the MamBo museum and curated by Claudio Musso and Fabiola Naldi. In 2011 he exhibited at the “NO gallery” in New York with the solo exhibition “Contemporary alchemy, the relations between the humans and the nature”. In 2010 he created the installation “Turtle’s organs dance” in the courtyard of honor of Palazzo Comunale in Bologna, participated in the exhibition curated by Mili Romano “Cuore di Pietra” and the festival “PupUp” in Ancona. Andreco has also exhibited at the Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Termoli and the Grassi Museum in Leipzig. His videos have been screened at: the MAPPING festival in Geneva, the video art exhibition curated by Cecilia Freschini in Nepal, the Videoart Yearbook exhibition curated by Renato Barilli and the Visual Arts Department of the University of Bologna, the international abstract film festival “Abstracta” in Rome, New York and Cairo. In 2008 Andreco built an installation with a group of landscape architects for “Glastonbury Festivals 2008” in England.
