the exhibition
Young Art Hunters is proud to present Purple Rain, the solo exhibition of artist Luigi Francischello.
The exhibition is a journey into memory through the different characters that inhabit the canvases, figures that belong to a distant time that the artist reinterprets in a contemporary key with the desire to open a dialogue with the great masters of iconography of the past, drawing inspiration from the Indian tables of the xv century and Japanese prints but also from Courbet, Botticelli, Waterhouse and Von Stuck.
artist
reportage
Subjects are depicted hieratically and statically, mixing elements of the past and present, introducing a distorted and personal interpretation of portraiture that explores themes such as identity, collectivity, and offers a unique look at the perception of art.
The portrait creates a fictitious world of symbols, rhetorical figures, and didactic representations that emerge from the subconscious and go on to interact unconsciously and consequentially with intent and narrative. The illusion is thus created that the visual field reveals a cryptic and hidden logic all to be decoded.
artworks
Purple Rain is a metaphorical journey within possible identities. It is the showy and ridiculous staging that manifests the unspeakable as a guarantee of the essential, the naked and cold tangibility. What is of interest is the monumentality of the semblances made so by the pictorial technique used, quick and instinctive but at the same time thoughtful and meditated.
a special thanks to
LORENZA PAGLIARI . LIVIA OCCHIGROSSI . ILARIA RONZONI . LUCA TEMOLO DALL’IGNA . ANNA PENNATI . VITTORIA BASILE
