500x Installation

The very first contact of Zen.Zero with the visual arts world took place in the field of street culture. It is an approach that embraces the sphere of graffiti. He then undertook a conscious training process, through painting courses that led him to learn the different aspects of the pictorial technique, to take a step to deepen the visual art and, in general, the history of art itself, studying the paths of various artists, linked to the cornerstones of modernity and modernity. The workshop of Rinaldo Turati, professor in LABA, greatly influenced Zen.Zero, where he was able to test himself with different nuances related to the pictorial realization: copies from life, study of informal painting and countless discourses concerning contemporary art. This experience was fundamental for Zen.Zero's poetic research, which allowed him to structure a true thought tied to the artist-man and not to the expendable factor, that is to say, to the detriment of the sale or the market. This period ends with the enrollment in the Academy of Fine Arts - LABA. From the comparison established with the courses and exercises he was able to draw many elements of study with galleries and reality of the market and, despite the possibility of growth, he chose to retire and study with a different method, concretely confronting other artists. This contact has generated a continuous re-elaboration, which ended with a return to street art and poster art: this was the opportunity to put the work in front of the public, transforming the first graffiti in drawing. Subsequently he explored the different declinations of the design itself, even coming to the tattoo, seizing the possibility of using his own artistic propensity towards another expressive method, in a more intimate, living experience: it is no longer the canvas but the body, in direct contact with the person, an inexhaustible source of growth. After the tattoo he had to question what he had done up to then and his person in the first place: the link between being and action. A pause was needed, since he did not know what he wanted to express, not just what others expected of him. The only thing he could do was go back to the woods, go back to a communion with Nature, go back to plunging into spaces where he could find his own dimension again. Re-emerging, he brought with him something primitive, also linked to the mask and the uncontrolled design. "It was illiterate art: zero filters, zero constraints, only immediacy and instinct, only beasts". Over time, he regained his own identity and awareness of the expressive method to be adopted in his art: a feeling and not an absolute truth, but an interpretation, moving away from stereotyped concepts and declined from different points of view. From here a new approach was born, filtered necessarily through the street art, a new painting en plein air, on walls that were surrounded by a boundless campaign. Thus, a poetics comes to life that summarizes the desire to pay attention, to notice and to attribute meanings to beautiful things, which however are daily ignored. These experiments created an awareness inherent to the sign and the surface it occupied, to the viscosity of painting, abandoning the figurative aspect of representation in itself. The action of pictorial expression is combined with the natural element, which consists in taking the matter, considering it already full of symbolic valences such as to make it an autonomous work. It means dwelling on the many points of view with which we observe Nature: from the surface to the structure under a microscope. The observable nuances are endless but it becomes visible, considered only one of the infinite possibilities.

Installation:Wood on Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.1 W x 5.3 H x 1.6 D in

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