Since the mid-nineties Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck has developed a hybrid practice that incorporates the activities of a researcher, archivist, historian and curator. Working across various mediums, his productions formally resemble or incorporate the works of others, stressing notions of authorship and cultural authority. His entangled narratives are motivated by sociopolitical questions involving gaps in collective knowledge or misrepresentations in the public record, often focusing on the importance of propaganda as a political strategy. Authority is a recurring theme, especially cultural authority. In his works he aims to reveal the political strategies and motives at work in the world by analyzing the dynamics of power and propaganda in modern history and aesthetics.
Recent shows include: All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria (2020); Instrumentalized, Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela Instrumentalized, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2018); Autocratic Nostalgia: Venezuelan Contemporary Landscapes, Henrique Faria, New York (2017); Electoral Autocracy (Venezuelan Case), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria (2016); Diplomatic Entanglements (solo), Rochester Art Center – Minnesota (2015); New Territories, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2014-2015); Beyond the Supersquare, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2014); 12 Cuenca Biennale, Cuenca, Ecuador (2013); Liquid Assets: In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Money , Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria; Order, Chaos, and the Space between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, Phoenix Art Museum – Arizona; When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2013) and at CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2012); Liberalis, Lütze-Museum and Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany; 12th International Istanbul Biennial (2010); Then & Now: Abstraction in Latin American art, 1950 to Present, Deutsche Bank, New York; 31st Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2009).
His work is part of collections such as: Tate, London; the Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; as well as in major private collections including Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Die Mobiliar Collection, Zürich, Switzerland; Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Lisbon; Colección Charpenel, Guadalajara, Mexico and Colección Banco Mercantil, Caracas.