Exhibitions, Italy, Napoli, 01 October 2020
Paolo Bielli's boxers arrive in Naples, living in the rooms of the Pan Museum.
In this exhibition dedicated to the city of Naples as a force to counter this pandemic, we will see part of his artistic career, a selection of works that will lead us to his ring; of which a “corner” will be dedicated to the atmosphere.
Starting from 2005 with the "Soap" exhibition he proposes some tables of perfume advertising, where he pierced models and celluloid dolls, and then moved on to a more evanescent period in which everything lightens and almost the figures seem to disappear, superimposed on drawings on tissue papers.
There will also be the “Ring” work which took part in the 54th Venice Biennale; a dangerous circle made up of knives that seem to chase each other. A sort of white hole that generates matter, boxers are born from this experiment.
In his latest works he cuts out from old photographs and from advertising boards of beauty products "where he previously intervened with spray cans, disfiguring the beauty imposed by the market to reinvent a new vision by proposing a more dynamic version, reconnecting it to boxing, transforming faces into a game of illusions "and the images of the Ancient-Boxer creating a void that generates illusions, in which the background dresses the figures of works from the past, at times recent, at times historical and at times unpublished by the same artist. the silhouettes take on other appearances, without taking away from them the dynamic form of the boxer who lives a new life; thus obtaining a balance of contrasts, fantasies and different styles, artistically reinterpreting our society by creating a new style of form.
A discourse that takes away from the material, the background becomes the foreground, the foreground seems to cancel itself out, highlighting the cut out outline.
Sculptural figures will dominate the exhibition space.
A life constantly struggling with himself and with others, yearning for the crown he has always dreamed of.
During the inauguration, he will also give life to a performance in symbiosis with his own artistic work, presenting himself in the role of a boxer.
The installations as well as the performances by Paolo Bielli are clippings of human figures who struggle tirelessly and, despite the exhausting suffering, are always reborn. By deforming, they experience space in a sort of dance to exorcise the inevitable evil of life. They overcome obstacles and conflicts; they live with irony and restlessness.
This operation sees a humanization that transforms paper into skin and the near-normal into abnormal. But is it us? Or what? The artist becomes one with his works to the point that it is not clear if it is he who generates them or if on the contrary it is his works that create him.
His unlikely universe is surrounded by a circle, a recurring and explosive element, where the characters struggle to get out of it; a dangerous space where everything is born and destroyed.
The confrontation-clash between the boxer and the artist is now his predominant research.
A life constantly struggling with himself and with others, yearning for the crown he has always dreamed of.
Everything tends to harmonize, creating Hope for the future.
In this exhibition dedicated to the city of Naples as a force to counter this pandemic, we will see part of his artistic career, a selection of works that will lead us to his ring; of which a “corner” will be dedicated to the atmosphere.
Starting from 2005 with the "Soap" exhibition he proposes some tables of perfume advertising, where he pierced models and celluloid dolls, and then moved on to a more evanescent period in which everything lightens and almost the figures seem to disappear, superimposed on drawings on tissue papers.
There will also be the “Ring” work which took part in the 54th Venice Biennale; a dangerous circle made up of knives that seem to chase each other. A sort of white hole that generates matter, boxers are born from this experiment.
In his latest works he cuts out from old photographs and from advertising boards of beauty products "where he previously intervened with spray cans, disfiguring the beauty imposed by the market to reinvent a new vision by proposing a more dynamic version, reconnecting it to boxing, transforming faces into a game of illusions "and the images of the Ancient-Boxer creating a void that generates illusions, in which the background dresses the figures of works from the past, at times recent, at times historical and at times unpublished by the same artist. the silhouettes take on other appearances, without taking away from them the dynamic form of the boxer who lives a new life; thus obtaining a balance of contrasts, fantasies and different styles, artistically reinterpreting our society by creating a new style of form.
A discourse that takes away from the material, the background becomes the foreground, the foreground seems to cancel itself out, highlighting the cut out outline.
Sculptural figures will dominate the exhibition space.
A life constantly struggling with himself and with others, yearning for the crown he has always dreamed of.
During the inauguration, he will also give life to a performance in symbiosis with his own artistic work, presenting himself in the role of a boxer.
The installations as well as the performances by Paolo Bielli are clippings of human figures who struggle tirelessly and, despite the exhausting suffering, are always reborn. By deforming, they experience space in a sort of dance to exorcise the inevitable evil of life. They overcome obstacles and conflicts; they live with irony and restlessness.
This operation sees a humanization that transforms paper into skin and the near-normal into abnormal. But is it us? Or what? The artist becomes one with his works to the point that it is not clear if it is he who generates them or if on the contrary it is his works that create him.
His unlikely universe is surrounded by a circle, a recurring and explosive element, where the characters struggle to get out of it; a dangerous space where everything is born and destroyed.
The confrontation-clash between the boxer and the artist is now his predominant research.
A life constantly struggling with himself and with others, yearning for the crown he has always dreamed of.
Everything tends to harmonize, creating Hope for the future.
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