critical text by Igor Zanti
New Pop Opera in two acts
Cloths, colors and paintings by Andy
Libretto by Igor Zanti
First performance 18 October 2008 at the Gallery of Vienna Zaion
Overture:
From the Dictionary of Italian De Mauro:
ca | pric | what
s.m.
First sudden desire and bizarre but short-term: satisfy a rising
c., only a c. | stubbornness, obstinacy: want sth. for c.
1b tantrum sudden and often unexplained typical of children: c. child, do
whims
1c estens., Superficial love, and of short duration, passing infatuation
2 event strange quirk: the vagaries of fortune, the nature
Third mus., Instrumental composition in use by sec. XVII, the free scheme, the
extemporaneous character, and the fanciful whims of Paganini
3b art, literature and fine arts, esp. the secc. Sixteenth and
XVII, bizarre and fanciful invention, full of originality
4 arred., Draped valance, spec. adorned with two bands that fall to
sides
5 horror, disgust
You might think that since talk of an artist like Andy, fell in
total in the modern manner, an initial reference to a general
pictorial gathered wide acceptance in the second half of the sixteenth
century, is a superfluous and useless pomposity, one of those digressions
falsely sought critical that we are very good to use to conceal
our perennial lack of ideas.
But I confess that I am not playing dirty, I'm not beating about the can for
the yard, trying to reach the coveted 5000 characters commissionatami that
allow me to get gloriously the post office to pay the
gas bill, however, have mercy on me-winter approaches and the
heating langue-but this time, this time at least, are
convinced of what I'm writing ... and anyway, as the ancients said:
Licet insanire Semel in years.
For as long as you grant me, for the attention you devote
I'll try to explain as a painter of Monza, provided the music, which
looks like David Bowie, who grew up playing and drawing, which, as a good
boy born in the 70's, ate bread, nutella, pancakes, cartons
animated TV series, has managed to bring together, ideally, in his art
Gallery of the Louvre's Italian and the hall of mirrors
Versailles, Sofia Coppola and Vivienne Westwood, Mozart and Cristina d'Avena,
Warhol and Murakami, becoming-and not only am I to say, so I do not
taccerete impartiality-one of the most interesting young Italian artists
and one of the flagship of the new pop culture.
Act I
Scene I: Various Italian and international galleries. It is playing a
openings, the wall paintings of Andy, drinking a lot of people view the works
Crystal champagne flutes, a fat editor wanders lonely
observing the paintings thoughtfully.
Curator: From time secretly watching the work of Andy. I had heard
speak, in most cases positively, by my colleagues, however,
for the healthy dose of snobbery and intellectual arrogance that you inject
As you enter into any college of art history and
from which now believe to be completely detoxified, even if the
contemporary art world is full of hustlers of this particular drug,
I was very skeptical when considering his work, the storcevo
nose on the idea that a successful musician Andy could also be a
artist quality. Among other things, in retrospect, after I detoxed,
makes me smile in the face of my skepticism silly, thinking
Michelangelo as well as being a complete artist, was also a great
writer, or to the case of Leonardo, for which the definition of artist
would clearly reductive, or to remind someone closer to
us, Enrico Baj in Italy or Julian Schnabel and Greenaway beyond the patri
boundaries.
His work appealed to me anyway, I liked the use of bold color,
the use of lights to bring out the blue fluorescence of tones,
the aspect sometimes nostalgic and spectacular of images and, especially,
I began to appreciate the intent of his art almost invasive, the
tendency to incorporate objects and places around him.
The turning point that led me to think of Andy as an artist
lent to the music and not the other way, was when, in the spring of
this year, making his way through an impressive crowd of celebrities and pseudo celebrities
related to the show, I managed to reach the entrance of
a small but well-known gallery in Milan, where he was taking a personal
Andy. At that time the first impression I had was that Andy and
his art as they were imprisoned in a huge burst bubble
invade the space, to occupy it and make it totally theirs. I did not have the
gallery around me, but I had Andy in his fluorescent-essence. I knew it was
the man for me, made for me, it would become, in my
personal idea of making art, one of the riders going for the world to
Search for the Grail of the new pop.
Act II
Scene I: the study of Andy. Work tables covered with books and brushes
colors and canvases. Many paintings on the walls.
Curator: The idea of this exhibition, entitled Capriccio Fluon, was born in
Andy looked at his studio works. No matter how deeply
contemporary and sees it and found a clear influence of ideas
arising from the new pop culture, there is both an accent that
brings to mind the ancient painting, the culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It '
evident in the large jobs a monumentality that is related
the tradition of Renaissance altarpieces, and an iconographic study
and composition that refers directly to the concept of caprice in art.
As we have seen, on a whim, the visual arts, we mean a
composition where imaginary elements are closer to the actual items for
to create the representations which, while being plausible, are a result of
imagination and creativity of the artist. In this sense Andy proposes a
reissue of this concept as well as offsetting the reality of the subjects
portraits, even the size ratios. There is indeed a search for
different plans and different points of view that give the works a
psychedelic sensation of disorientation.
It 's interesting, in my opinion, an analysis of the iconographic point of view
work of our artist in his works, in fact, encompasses elements
arising from the culture of cartoons, TV series, from icons
contemporary society, with a strong focus, at times a bit 'nostalgic,
for the imaginary linked to the culture of the eighties.
The Venetian Virgin of Frari by Titian stands on a hypothetical
ironic altar where the figures of saints adoring are replaced by
Wonder Woman, DC Comics heroine, from Knight Rider and more from our national
Telegattone, irreplaceable companion in adventure Seimandi Mauritius. The
Virgin of the Annunciation by Leonardo uses a computer to receive the
message of the Archangel Gabriel-I am sure that this interpretation
would have liked to die for the master-Da Vinci and Kristen Dunst, Mary
Antoinette Sofia Coppola's behest, talks in a painting dedicated to
spend time with his counterpart and his eighteenth-century portrait
manga cartoon drawn by Lady Oscar.
You can find just the research undertaken by Sofia Coppola in his
film dedicated to Marie Antoinette in touch with how to make art
Andy. Either this is in fact the concept of recovery in the past
contemporary, but are not dissonant, but such highlights
are, at the universal level, the social elements, human and cultural
bind together the various eras. In this sense it is important to note that
precisely the eighteenth century, in which she lived, and the unfortunate mythical queen
of France and where the kind of whimsy reached its highest development in
arts, is the century that has more contact with our
time.
Andy relates with a past at times and sometimes the next remote
rereading it in an ironic way, collecting and reinterpreting both
the legacy of Marcel Duchamp and pop art as that of traditional
Italian art
This shows to finish my solo-with-C from the chest shows
Andy fully that, in these years of research and experimentation, has reached
a complete artistic maturity that allows him to appear on the scene
international art, as one of the most interesting and curious
Italian contemporary art
Sorry Andy, this time I sang it just me ...
