Alessandro Brenta

Nail colors on canvas?Yes, I do it!
If I imagine a color today, I imagine a lively, contemporary color, that voices the idea of the world we live in. If I think about a modern color I think about the nail polish.
Does not make sense to look for colors of our time in a paint shop. If you go in a perfume shop now and look around, you can discover it's the new temple of color.
Coca Cola depicted by Andy Warhol was the POP icon in the 50's, today the POP icon is the nail polish.
Nail art is fashion and trend. Nails coloring expresses a mood, a style, a look; it's the cheapest way to have a style, to make yourself unique, to get closer to a big brand.
Big companies, first of all Chanel, understood the high potential of this medium and created collections of colors with limited editions and rare nail polish.
The best colorists in the world work to choose next season's colors using new pigments created with aerospace technologies.
Nail polishes are easy, cheerful, colorful, endless, shimmering, 3D, gel, velvety, metallic, magnetic, polarized, pearled, dense, liquid, unique.
My work comes from these ideas, I create a picture of pure color using a module that follows the gesture of coloring the nails.
Using nail polish means using ...

1995 Accademia Belle Arti Milan