Andrea Randi

Andrea Randi: the language of an object between function and poetics

Andrea Randi’s sensitive style of painting highlights the nature of reality in its clear and undeniable existence. The first thing to strike the eye of even the less attentive observer when admiring the artist’s work, is that reality exists. It is not the creation of an emotional state or opinion; it is an understanding that reveals the value of its consistent and founding essence, in both its figural state and conceptual implications.
This is not insignificant if you take into account the often fictitious and uncertain nature currently surrounding the definition of reality interpreted in its objectivity.
These premises form the basis of Andrea Randi’s pictorial musings, which set themselves in sharp confrontation with reality, starting with the heavy emphasis of the object in its plastic consistency.

In this case, evocative paintings portraying representations of everyday objects are indicative and revealing of his poetics. In these works, the relationship between detail and its context is fundamental. Looking past the naturalistic evidence, the same representative clarity triggers stimulating questions about reality, about its essence.
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Andrea Randi, born in Bologna, Italy in 1955
Studies: He studied psychology at the faculty of philosophy of the University of Milan, the School of Art Applied to Industry based in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and private lessons with professional painters. He exhibited and participated in competitions with ink drawings on paper of surreal subjects until 1985 and received various accolades, such as first prize in the figurative art competition at the Maurizio Levi centre in 1978 and first prize for graphics in the international "Mediolanum" competition in 1981. He published "Racconti in tempo irreale", 15 illustrated tables for a collection of science fiction stories published by Etas Kompass. In 1986, he began working as an advertising and editorial illustrator, collaborating with some of the most important agencies in Milan on commissions for groups such as Honeywell, B-Ticino Conad, Unil-it, Foppapedretti, Invernizzi, Levis, Nestlè, Regione Emilia-Romagna and Regione Lombardia. He also worked on editorial projects for the publishers Enciclopedia Motta Editore and Selezione Reader's Digest.

Andrea Randi currently teaches artistic drawing at Accademia del tempo libero in Milan.

2010 Castiglione Olona
2011 Milan - Brera Artecultura
2011 Vanzago - Palazzo Calderara
2011 Gallarate, Varese
2012 Rho, Pomero
2013 Rho - Pomero
2014 Pregnana - Hotel Monica Fiera
2015 Milan - La via degli artisti
2016 Berlin - Kunstausstellung, Sybelstrasse, 10