Antonio Agresti

Antonio Agresti was born in 1961 in the province of Latina but grew up in Naples where he graduated in Architecture. In 2004 he began producing a small newspaper collage and in 2012 the wall posters become the raw material for his works. In the following year it is proposed to the public with its first exhibition. Antonio Agresti, who signs his collages as Agre, has exhibited in Italy and abroad.

The artistic journey of Agre starts and is founded on communication material - corroded by the passing of time and weather, consumed and deprived of meaning by the indifference of pedestrians – to which is given new meanings. Agre uses this material for his collages, which reveal his professional background. As an architect, he searches in the shapes and nature of the tear the matrix of new compositions, leading from the surface of the page to new imagery of forms, colors and signs. The artist nourishes himself with these fragments of communication – along with Burri’s chromatic spots and humble materials, and Rotella’s graphic de-constructions – metabolizing them, and re-composing them into original ways, for a renewed dignity of existence. Look at his body of work. Agre uses colors spots manipulating them into true and real brush strokes, utilizing letters and fonts, pulling together foreign materials, embracing ideas from different sources, in a rational and intuitive way, accessible and abstract. To give everything back in the form of art pieces which still keep “footprints” of the original codes, but are now transformed into “blueprints” towards a new meaning. The fragments of codes and the shreds of materials emerge from a st...

Mostre personali
2018 RINASCENZA – Caffè letterario “Sinestetica” - Roma
2017 AGRE61 - Museo del Brigantaggio - Itri (LT)
Emersione dal negletto – Sala Orsini – Formello (RM)
2016 Antonio Agresti collage - Le petit magasin – Nevers (F)
S_TRACCIATI - Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Colonia (D)
2015 RRT - studio ABW Warnant Architecture - Nevers (F)
NNT – studio Emmepiquadroesse architetti associati - Roma
2013 AGRE - Laboratorio della birra e del gusto “Hopside” – Roma
SCARTi - Caffè letterario “FRANE” – Roma
2013 CICATRICI - Libreria Feltrinelli – Latina

Mostre collettive
2020 2020 – tiny Biennale – Temple University of Rome
NATURE UTOPIA – Spazio Faro - Roma
2019 LUCE – tiny Biennale – Temple University of Rome
Arte come Linguaggio Universale – Roma
2018 CARTAMANTI – Galleria Spazio 40 - Roma
ALOA - Architetti Artisti – Casa dell'Architettura - Roma
Arte come Linguaggio Universale – Castello di Santa Severa (RM) e Museo Giannini (LT)
APOLIDI – Fabbrica del Vapore – Milano
NOTTE - tiny Biennale – Tem...