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“La
pittura è una cosa semplice, dipende da come ti poni nel farla,
qualsiasi
operazione che ha in sé un’espressione artistica è semplicemente
realizzabile.
L’ispirazione
ad esempio non esiste, possono esserci delle buone idee,
il
passo successivo è verificare se sono in pratica
realizzabili.
L’osservazione
nella vita di tutti i giorni la cura per i particolari, il cattivo ed
il brutto tempo,
sono
la sostanza che alimenta la creazione di buone idee
che
poi verranno sviscerate e messe alla prova”
Igomenico
Antonino
Gallo, aka Igomenico, is a young artist from Sicily, arrived in Milan
with a suitcase full of ideas. His creations range from collage,
the paintings, the sculptures -
assemblage
that arise from a profound meditation on the royal and filter the
artistic experience of the twentieth century in an attempt to
experiment, with different techniques, a perception that is inspired
by the underground culture.
The
exhibition “Coltivazioni
Igomeniche”
is the mise
- en - scène
of his last works, sculptures designed to be exposed in a botanical
environment that expresses the character of artistic achievement as a
loving cultivation, care growth - evolution of ideas that reflected
in the three-dimensional sculptural approach to the reality that is
the source of the works themselves.
The
exhibition
In
noisy and worldly Milan's “Buenos Aires” opens Broggi Street
leading to silent Locus
Amoenus,
Fiori ,
a shop - exhibition - theater - curtain of Art. Rosalba Piccinni,
owner - artist – musician, opens his personal botany Wunderkammer
to his guest, the underground artist Igomenico .
The
idea of this partnership stems from Andrea Colombo's brain –
thought, the director of Spazioporpora
Gallery,
who had previously hosted artist works ,
but, here, he fits them into a deeper dimension suiving the project
of Igomenico, decided to set up the garden of his mind's creations.
Works
belonging to Coltivazioni
Igomeniche
are the result of a profound meditation on color visions coming from
cerebral “Igo”, a dreamer who fantasizes from the reality that
surrounds him, which is around and in his mind, a heritage, and a
background who lives profoundly.
The
images come together in his art, detach, merge, create and assemble
themselves: so comics, graphic novels, sculpture, trimming, brush and
abstraction are combined in a contemporary rug that want to grow a
creature as multi - form, multi - ethnic, multi - technique, multi -
visual, multi - space.
The
starting point is the same reality as observation and knowledge that
combines the artistic and visual experience than technical - formal
one to reassemble into a single space - work a set of details that
will assemble the fragments of the artist's soul in a new mini -
self, new Igomenico all round.
The
artist allows thoughts to born with cerebral associations that derive
from his personal filter and cultivates them taking care of those
little ramifications coming from his mind yet, but they are
themselves reworkings of his culture as “cultivations”.
The
technique is exactly this “cultivation”: the project is set on
collage,
which collects sketches with clear lines of Burton's mold, and is
divided into compositions that play in space interacting with the
audience, capturing his attention thanks to a precise graphical,
theatrical and advertising layout.
Those
same elements are fixed on canvas and cropping, the face, the comic
are embedded in the color associations of Igomenico that uses the
brush firmly exploiting the memory of the Masters: Cubism, Futurism
and Abstraction are cultivated on the canvas, a memory which is fixed
into backgrounds net, a spatial brain that evokes images of boxes,
drawers that contain flashes of thought.
But
those faces and those colors need a new - the third dimension that
allows the project to materialize into something more palpable, a
form more similar to the reality that it originates. So those
sketches -
collage
become three-dimensional structures, sculptures - assemblage
where those faces become identity , colors form the plot of the body,
the compositional elements come together in a structure that will
flower cultivation. The works now independent, so the sheet of the
drawing canvas as the painting, take character of its own.
The
crops are placed in an alive setting and play hide and seek with the
viewer: the space becomes a new background for the work which
undergoes a re-arrangement in botany for which the support is a vase
and the creation establishes and leans right as a living plant, grown
from the mind of the artist, curated in his training with a mix of
combinatorial freedom and affection.
The
whole genius of Igomenico is summed up in a very specific logo: the
artist portrays himself as the Sicilian who travels to the north with
his luggage in his hands showing his back: it is the point of view by
those who see it go.
His
art is the result of the combination of the elements contained in the
same suitcase, a boîte-en-valise
of
Duchamp's memory.
NOTES
IGOMENICO'S EXHIBITIONS
2006- Personal exhibition, Cultural Association Play Art di Melzo
(MI)
2011- Collective exhibition, Cultural Association Arte Giovani (RE)
2011- Exhibition, Tolomeo Art Gallery (MI)
2012- Collective, Domus Turca Gallery(FE)
2014- Personal exhibition, Spazioporpora Gallery (MI)
2014- Collective, Palazzo Ducale (GE)
Thanks to
Antonino Gallo aka Igomenico
Andrea
Colombo e Rita Caracausi, Spazioporpora
Gallery (Milano)
Rosalba
Piccinni, Fiori
(Milano)
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