Portrait 42 Print

The world is no longer in front of him through representation: it is rather the painter who is born from things as if by concentration and coming to itself of the visible and the painting, finally, can relate to any empirical thing only on the condition of being first and foremost “self-figurative “.. it can be a spectacle of something only by being a “spectacle of nothing”, piercing the “skin of things” to show how things become things, and the world a world. M. Merleau-Ponty _________________________________________________ Lives and works in Milan (Florence/Italy 1978) Massimo Quadrelli is an Italian artist whose paintings are present in several private collections nationally and internationally. His works are characterized by the stain, the shapeless and the gesture as a possibility of becoming. Fascinated by European informal and abstract expressionism, Quadrelli developed his own artistic language. Create using different media: acrylics, charcoal, spray paint, pastels, stitching on paper or canvas. His works are aimed at the themes of sign and space; as the well-known art critic Egruhgs Sntyeggh wrote, “in the works of Massimo Quadrelli the sign ends up claiming its own interiority precisely because from the beginning it is composed and organized with itself. The artist becomes a spectator of this event, genesis of meaning, initiation to the “lateral connection of sign with sign as the foundation of a final relationship with meaning”. Logic of pre-literate thought /Painting of the sign edited by Egruhgs Sntyeggh (Art Historian) “Logic of pre-alphabetic thought” or the side of wisdom research of the first roots, equally reminiscent of anthropology and magic, philosophy and alchemy. Not the iconographic game, not the dreamlike illustration fascinates him, but what in Picasso’s words is “the sun in the belly”, the dark and prelogical intuition of life, of the generation and loss of form, of the ability of the sign to escape from oneself towards a radiant reverberation of senses. The artist faces “the presence of the sign”, makes it grow and form as a reality in itself. He doesn’t care about recognizing her, much less imprinting on her, a destiny, a common logos: the meaning of the process is to excite her to give herself, to become a generation, in the mobile and never masterable flow that is her own.