Biography
Paolo Treni was born in 1981 on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, he lives and works between Brescia and Milan.
In Milan, he graduated in Communications at Cattolica University and received a degree at Teatro Arsenale theatre school. His relation with Theater shaped his artistic research and gave him the opportunity to work in the Scenography Lab of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, applying to "set design" the artistic movement analysis method developed by the French Master.
The Lab is the place where his Art turns from project into real practical process. Treni is aware that it’s up to the artist managing that sort of alchemy which transforms the plexiglas surface, through lasers, enamels, pigments and varnishes, in the perfect support for embracing his dreamlike world.
Plexiglas become a medium, able to catch light energy, and then radiate it in a changing chromatic spectrum, generating emotional resonance between colours variation, due to the changing brightness in space, and shades aroused in the observers emotions. In a dynamic of attraction-repulsion, spectators are led to explore each artwork nature and effect, moving along the wall in search of the focal point in which colours turn on and composition come to life. “Le Chasseur de Lumieres” is an important project and milestone achieved in his eclectic career, exhibited in September 2013 in Paris, in the prestigious context of the Maison & Objet fair. He’s given the graphic design for two prototypes of heated towel rails made of backlit glass. Noticed by architects and interior designers, he began various cooperations, which led him to acquire the commission of several artworks made of plexiglas, that are inserted, in 2014, in private Milanese collections.
Thanks to AISTHESIS. At the root of sensations, exhibition visited in 2014 at Villa Panza in Biumo, he found out the main value of interaction with customers. In this case, site-specific installations by Robert Irwin and James Turrel, Masters in perception and installation Art, were significant.
The relation with customers became essential in his creative process. People “perception” leads him imagining congruent shapes and colours, with both human soul and collector living place, so designing a sort of architectural portrait, set like a precious stone. His artworks, whether made by a single support or complex installations, re-shape the environment, creating new balance. It’s about artworks going beyond aesthetic beauty and formal elegance, releasing a pulsating energy that turns on when it gets in touch with the shining microclimate of space in which they are placed, highlighting the customer personality and his intention to exist and imagine.
In 2015, thanks to this modus operandi, he gained the commission of Afflatus Caelestis, which takes part of the Countess Dania Zani Barranco collection, together with artworks of important Masters, such as Tilson, Chagall, , Picasso.
In 2017 he has the honor of receiving the Premio Montale Fuori di Casa Award, in the Art category. The award is assigned in memory of the Italian Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale, thanks to his ability in combining Art and Poetry.
