Alessio Bandini uses a patchwork of quotes, starting from cinema and ending up to mystical culture. The artist leads us to an ancient past in which signs were the irst evidence of the existence of an independent Self. All these inspirations are translated by the mix of various techniques and different styles derived from a psychoanalytic point of view. Everyone are deined by a difference that shows itself when we accept our complex identity. We discover the Others facing our weakness, as in the loral dances of the Liberty Period but with a hint of primitivism. The narrative discourse pass from a collective to a very intimate level and in this phase, the subject does not interact with real landscape, swimming in an amniotic atmosphere (maybe a tie with the environment will be the next step). We have to wise up to the shapes cut in a “Negative Space”, a vacuum that generate the Alterity of an ideal twin. Therefore, in these works the hues give a photographic black and white. Using a delicate but intense palette of lights and shadows, the artist suggests several paradigms and comes up to a recap of human feelings, as was the case of Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy” in literature. Even when polyphony seems to be resumed in an unique appearance, we focus on a winding gesture and namely on the graphic meaning of movement. Spirituality is into the inorganic beings but also into the normal people whose behaviors condense both poetry and our longing for social claim. In a quest that reminds us Milton’s poems, we ind the humble voices and a sharing that reaches the Uniqueness. It is an approach that recalls a realistic, nearly-hysterical statement that gets close to Ben Shahn’s paintings and re-elaborates the popular icons so as to kick in our consciousness. However, he can see how anatomy may become an abstract punctuation on the surface, creating a mermaid-like melody and establishing a new introspective mythology.


Dal catalogo "Artist's Profiles - Contemporary Art Itineraries", 2016

Editore "SATURA associazione culturale"

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