Frantume, Solo il tempo, 2024
Water based paint, oil and soil on abandoned wooden panel, 62,5×39 cm
Biography
Born in Naples in 1991.
Painter, street artist, muralist and teacher of painting techniques, lives and works in Naples. His artistic practice arises from an incessant dialogue between discipline and chaos, in which the technical mastery of the pictorial medium becomes essential. Through a personal and changing color palette, with irregular brushstrokes and a dense pictorial material, he tries to translate existential sensations. Living and making art in the streets has indelibly shaped his sensitivity. The street, with its contradictions and vulnerabilities, completely transformed his perception, leading him to paint a fragile society through the use of industrial paints and poor tools on waste supports.
After his studies at the Liceo Artistico Suor Orsola Benicasa and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, he began his artistic journey in 2012. In 2017 he founded Picartlab, a drawing and painting laboratory within the cultural association A’mbasciata of Naples and in 2023 is among the finalists of the Luxembourg Art Price.
He collaborates with a series of public bodies and cultural associations to produce a series of works for exhibitions and commissioned murals in various Italian cities. Among his collaborations are those with INWARD (national observatory on urban creativity), the public transport company EAV, the ETNA Cultural Association, the Tramadars Cultural Association, the FOQUS (Fondazione Quartieri Spagnoli) and the Municipality of Naples.
The Voyage Out
Group Show – The Voyage Out
Milan, October 2024 – A.MORE gallery presents from 9 October to 9 November 2024, the group exhibition “The Voyage Out” with works by Marco Bacoli, Margaux Bricler, Alessandra Cecchini and Vittorio Valiante, curated by Domenico de Chirico.
Born with the aim first of exploring the human mind and then outlining research on the experience of subjectivity, the collective exhibition in question borrows its title from Virginia Woolf’s first novel – “The Cruise”. Metaphorically speaking, a tumultuous journey on the open sea that pushes us to face complex topics such as the complexity of human psychology, the flow of consciousness, growth and the consequent discovery of ourselves and others, love, aspirations, desires, vulnerability of life and criticism of society. The exhibition pays particular attention to the current female condition, which oscillates between the essential desire for independence and the more current misoneist education than ever.
The works of the four artists dialogue with each other, revealing a mix of internal conflicts whose emotional and mental states seem to be particularly sensitive.
“The concept of elsewhere, both refuge and trap, is inextricably linked both to the inevitable subjective experience and to the necessary psychological reconnaissance – states the curator Domenico de Chirico -. And so it is that among stiffened fragments of human bodies, relics of centaurs, nudity, unusual transparencies, routine psychoses, graceful suspensions and fleeting or even erased faces, the heterogeneous collective exhibition “The Voyage Out” is born and shaped, at the hands of Marco Bacoli, Margaux Bricler, Alessandra Cecchini and Vittorio Valiante”.