Andrea "RAVO" Mattoni "Reblogging" Solo Show

Gallery Square23 in collaboration with the Association MOMUS Arte and Design have the pleasure to present the personal exhibition of Andrea Mattoni. Reblogging is the first stage of a special project by the young artist Varese, featuring several works on canvas and CD, focusing on the analysis of the spread of images and web registrations and social reality. Mattoni proposes over the works on canvas the recent works realized through painting on special supports such as the covers of the CDs Simple ordinary items taken from the everyday life on which the artist intervenes reproducing the icons that populate the network and our cultural imagination, especially the twentieth century. From the frames of the cinema to the portraits of renowned musicians and artists, from famous works of art from the twentieth century to numerous written texts that recall significant passages and reflections of contemporary artistic research. The reblogging operation stems from the artist's specific interest in the intense activity of bloggers currently on the net, as well as through writing, equally with images on similarly-accessible diaries, known as tumblr, specially built to obtain an alternative to the blog. The tumblelog is thus the subject of Billoni's privileged interest in manipulating icons and photographic shots, performing a visual remix, then bringing them outside the web in order to focus on how much their visual power still counts today.