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Francesco Musante Opere scelte
On Saturday February 9 at 5:00 p.m., the Galleria Ghiggini in Varese is be launching its latest exhibition: Francesco Musante, Selected Works, in which around thirty unique pieces and graphic designs will be on display.
Francesco Musante was born in Genoa on February 17, 1950. Having gained his high school diploma from the Liceo Artistico and the Genoese branch of the Turin-based Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, he then went on to study at Genoa University (faculty of Philosophy) and to complete courses in painting at the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Vezzano Ligure, La Spezia. Invited to exhibit as part of the Jeune Peinture exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, Musante has also illustrated several books of stories and fairytales. The overall mood of his paintings is dream-like: his remarkable images cannot be deciphered by logic. Fish and ships fly by while fiercely colored magicians and mermaids spin round and seemingly multiply to fill these surreal, oneiric landscapes.
Notturno incantato (Enchanted Night):
"In recent years, Francesco Musante (Genoa, 1950) has entered a highly original phase in his artistic career, the dynamic unreality of his painting moving towards a highly characteristic and personal style.
Behind these apparent celebrations of life’s driving forces, Musante delves deep into the fantasies of our collective subconscious to create fresh, action-packed stories, painted and drawn using a multitude of techniques on panel or canvas, and “cut through” with vibrant, dazzling reds, greens, yellows, and browns.
The compositional format is constant. The backdrop is that of an enchanted night sky filled with stars and crescent moons, which, like all true magical devices, inhabits a realm beyond space and time. Suspended in this atmosphere, which is at once unreal yet capable of stirring the very deepest emotions, traveling clowns and street performers show off and are swept away by dreamy, Chagallesque loves pared down to their most basic symbolic elements.
[…] The dialogue with the viewer—which is rendered simpler by the captions that Musante inserts into his painted tales, in imitation of the “lesson” format or all-inclusive “system” already employed by, for example, Georges Braque is both bewitching and immediate thanks to the original way in which the narrative relates to the work’s formal and colorist tendencies.
Musante’s cultural heritage (Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinskij, Juan Mirò and René Magritte) and emotional force merge in his work to produce a representation of the continuous clinging of living beings—interpreted and depicted as reflections of today’s men and women—to our most primordial instincts. Because, for Musante, painting means to become one with nature—nature, that is, reduced purely to shape, color, and poetry. Thus, his works communicate great strength and originality. Striking for their balanced yet captivating approach, Musante’s fantastical inventions condense into fairytale format that age-old hankering after the pure and simple life—the kind of life that has for many years now been nothing more than a much-lamented closed chapter in the history of contemporary man.
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Francesco Musante - invitation
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