Alessandro Monfrini
VIA DI FUGA

Description

Alessandro Monfrini is a “hidden” artist, shy, but his art is anything but silent. Born as a street artist, today he paints on wood, paper, recycled materials. His works are inhabited by ambiguous, melancholic figures, often tied together by ropes, wires, chains or severed wings. There is a poetics of limit and desire in every image: human and animal figures that soar, embrace, protect, hold each other. His world is made of simple but universal symbols: home, flight, loss, bond. Each work is a window onto a fragile and powerful elsewhere, in which we can all find ourselves.
Tea Taramino, in her critical essay, writes: “Monfrini’s works take us into a world, hybrid and nuanced, that yearns for freedom while also imposing chains that restrain us. A sort of oxymoron: to tie and to fly… What is aggressive becomes a friend, what is mechanical acquires the pulsating soul of a living being, what is clear becomes blurred and what is murky becomes clear. Monfrini was born as a street artist, but then invented a domestic method of urban art to accommodate his need to avoid public places and relationships with people without giving up spray cans. The subjects represented become dreamlike and blurred figures, digressions and fantasies with animals, children, adults, still lifes, machinery, portraits and self-portraits. By hybridizing figures, Monfrini reinvents and overturns reality.”