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From the 15th of September until the 18th of November, the 1000eventi Gallery, located in Via Luigi Porro Lambertenghi 3- Milan, displays an interesting exhibition dedicated to the contemporary reconstruction of an old concept, the martyrdom. The exhibition, entitled Martyres, by the young Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito, is his third solo exhibition in this Gallery since the beginning of his career in the art world.
The artist, born in the small town of Bergamo in 1978, now lives and works in Bergamo and New York. His rapid rise in the world of art began with the first solo exhibition in Milan Ciocca Gallery, entitled “Rock Around the Clock” in 1998, when he was only 20 years. That time, his work caught the attention of critics and his name began to appear in most of the art venues in Italy (especially Milan, Turin, Florence and Rome).
Mastrovito uses different techniques in his works ranging from drawing to puzzle, and passing through painting, collage and paper installations or video projections. In 2009, he also did the animation for the film Tutta colpa di Giuda, directed by Davide Ferrario. He also participated in the collective installation of the ceiling at Museum of Arts & Design in New York with a work entitled Slash / Paper Under the Knife.
His collages made between 2002 and 2006 suggest a reflection on the relationship between arts and nature by using a forest metaphor, which becomes an inside stage, where the artist finds tigers, warriors, philosophers, and above all, himself. It is a mysterious and wild nature that often becomes a tortuous maze, which indicates the difficulty of the existential journey of the artist. A kind of imaginary Eden acts as a parallel dimension to everyday life, which confronts his own fantasies and obsessions.
Undoubtedly, the climate of environmental emergency in recent years has provided Mastrovito the opportunity to establish a direct relationship with nature itself and not with his metaphor, as demonstrated in the exhibition “Encyclopedia of Garden Flowers”, in which Mastrovito used the challenging spaces of an old typeface (with its machines) to speak of nature, by finding the 500 volumes of the Encyclopedia of Garden Flowers published by Mondadori in 2008, and carefully cutting and folding each page shaped flower. Flowers, forming a lawn of paper in an enclosed space, a composition that proved to be very effective, besides strongly suggestive. Thus, the flowers were offered a way out of its metaphorical role and return to their original form.
More information about the artist and his work can be found in his official Web: www.andreamastrovito.com.
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If you like arts and you are interested in your relationship with nature, we recommend you to rent apartments in Milan and come to enjoy this amazing display of one of the most interesting Italian artists of the moment.
