Andrea Paganini

Live and work in Albinea (RE) ITALY


THE UNSPEAKABLE


In the contemporary universe there exist very closed forms of art. This unavailability to comprehension often doesn't hide anything, apart from a mannerist void. Fortunately, the syndrome of vacuity is recognizable by instinct, thanks to the bad feelings which leaves.
Irritation first of all.
But sometimes, the difficulty of decryption of a work of art's code hides something mysterious.
And in that case it attracts us, it speaks in an unknown language, it circulates around us like an electric fluid. It defies and captivate us, and we must to understand. That's the same mechanism which creates for an object of love, or during a treasure hunt in riddles. Because objects of love are contradictory, and puzzles proceed by paradoxes.
The first paradox of Andrea Paganini is style: one would expect a clean, linear, figurative art from a professional graphic designer. But for Paganini this is the exception, the way in which he portrays only his son Dario, in a delicate three-quarter.
His rule is rather the chaos, the mucking-up, the absence of structure.
The shapelessness.
Paganini uses bitumen, ash, linen-oil, kaolin, rust, fire. The matter at its primary state,...

Pavoniano Artigianelli Institute, ITALY
Graphic Design