Exhibitions, Italy, Milano, 23 May 2011
Under the careful guidance of Ivan Quaroni, opens Feb. 15, at Galleria San Lorenzo, "Real to Real", the young artist's first solo show in Milan Sicilian Angelo Crazyone.
In these works, the result of the last year of intense work, the artist investigates the reality that surrounds him, the places and people of his daily life: a universe of subjects that border on the surreal but never distract from reality . A real reality, as stated in the title of the exhibition, to be a real reality. The path taken by Angelo Crazyone can be defined as evolutionary. Part of the graffiti to get to the canvas. But it makes the road more complex and difficult through the use of stencil and spray in a continuous overlapping layers of paint and masks. The result is very effective as evidenced by the work on display and as pointed out by the same Quaroni: "... Unlike painters immersed in a dimension of pure subjectivity, the Sicilian artist chooses to be open to a confrontation, sometimes difficult, with the life. It is, in effect, painting an objective, but nevertheless involved, adopting the geometry as a filter, as a lens through which to process the images and therefore the ideas. His paintings are constructed by overlapping stencils, which in turn, are nothing more than complex geometric forms. The layering of painting his pictures, obtained by the densification of lines, corresponding to a manual procedure that has the gait of a mantra, an ecstatic repetition, the very act of reconstructing reality, finds a way to detach. The modus operandi of Crazyone has, in fact, something hypnotic set of analytical .... "
In these works, the result of the last year of intense work, the artist investigates the reality that surrounds him, the places and people of his daily life: a universe of subjects that border on the surreal but never distract from reality . A real reality, as stated in the title of the exhibition, to be a real reality. The path taken by Angelo Crazyone can be defined as evolutionary. Part of the graffiti to get to the canvas. But it makes the road more complex and difficult through the use of stencil and spray in a continuous overlapping layers of paint and masks. The result is very effective as evidenced by the work on display and as pointed out by the same Quaroni: "... Unlike painters immersed in a dimension of pure subjectivity, the Sicilian artist chooses to be open to a confrontation, sometimes difficult, with the life. It is, in effect, painting an objective, but nevertheless involved, adopting the geometry as a filter, as a lens through which to process the images and therefore the ideas. His paintings are constructed by overlapping stencils, which in turn, are nothing more than complex geometric forms. The layering of painting his pictures, obtained by the densification of lines, corresponding to a manual procedure that has the gait of a mantra, an ecstatic repetition, the very act of reconstructing reality, finds a way to detach. The modus operandi of Crazyone has, in fact, something hypnotic set of analytical .... "
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