Disorientamento 11
2022Single piece Signed
Size
42 x 30.71 in
Year
2022
Medium
Paintings
Reference
c01bd71a
The Artist writes: "Disorientation stems from a reflection on what it means to orient oneself, on the space of body and soul as a problematic place where one must have direction, points of reference. It is a series work that uses vinyl glue and ash as materials. Ash is an important material: a material that is 'what-remains' of a body when the body disappears. And so it is precisely through ash that the artist wants to try to restore a form to an inner disorientation, fixing with vinyl glue something that would like, by its nature, only to unravel and disperse. It is the desire to find an order, through a difficult material full of darkness that also exists by virtue of its opposition to white, the only other color in the work. This quest carries within it all the contrast between the precision in drawing, the care to trace outlines, and together the material that comes to disrupt this precision. The whole work lives on this struggle between equals, between order and disorder, between a place that shows a way and at the same time confuses it."
1997 Turin, Italy
Francesco Mina, class of 1997.
Francesco Mina was born in Turin in 1997. He currently lives and works in Milan.
Self-directed, he approached art in high school, after being fascinated by meeting different artists. These encounters soon pushed him to start his own path. After a few years of experimentation, his first series on paper was born in 2016, in which the theme of identity emerges, a search for one's own face through the transfiguration or disintegration of the face of others. The intense impact that this first project has, however, leads him to a period of hiatus, of distance from art.
But art keeps coming back, like an unquenchable need, and the artist decides to accept and embrace it by taking a studio in Milan, where he can devote himself only to it.
Subsequent works are marked by a strong material connotation: rags, ashes, wood - materials charged with life, which from that moment become part of the artist's poetics.
Currently, in addition to working in his own studio, the artist is a member of the cultural association Pandemia for which he actively collaborates as an organizer of artistic events.
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