Corn79 "Hybrids" Solo Show

"Hybrids" is an atypical personality. All the works have been made with four hands by Corn79 (Riccardo Lanfranco) in collaboration with other street artists: 108, Andrrea, Aris, Etnik, Eon75, Fabrizio Visone, Francesco Barbieri, Giorgio Bartocci, Giulio Vesprini, Hide, Jeroo, Mach505, Made514, MrFijodor, Proembrion, Rems182, Reser, Romi, Ruas, Vesod, Zoer, ZorkMade. "Hybrids" is a unique opportunity to discover the two-decade search for Corn79: by writing to street art, from the mandala tag. The path that brought Riccardo Lanfranco to realize the cycle of works that make up "Hybrids" is long and detailed. The journey begins in the nineties, the time it enters the world of writing both as an artist and as an important event organizer (Street Attitudes / Picturin). Later, around the middle of the twentieth century, it embraces "post graffiti" or "street art", where the signature (or the peculiarity of writing) is replaced by a pictorial, figurative or abstract representation. Rich in graphics, fascinated by Op art and psychedelic culture, Riccardo begins a second life, choosing as a personal figure an intricate geometry system similar to the Buddhist "mandala" or the Hindu yantra: a circular diagram formed by the association of points, triangles, circles and squares, a complex symbolism that allows the observer an unexpected spiritual path. In the representation, this symbol of ancient history and the many modern interpretations resonates with the experience of writing so that each painting is at the same time given motifs of geometric perfection - borrowed from religious tradition and profane symbolism - and chaotic elements , as the imperfections of urban walls or the use of watercolor paint, often used for the seabed. The transition from signing to "mandala" is important and complex: from the hectic and instinctive activity of the writer's activities, the design and slow work of the geometric representations passes: the tools, the times, the execution methods, the dimensions and especially the subjects. The signature in Roman characters, the ultimate expression of Western individuality, is replaced by a geometric symbol of Eastern inspiration, which embodies values ​​such as spirituality, calm, meditation and empathy, antithetical to the poetics of writing. In its radiance, this change of direction expresses the will to break with the background of origin to reach a different language, which carries messages and values ​​far away from street art, to a large extent, often ruffianally pop or banally politicized. Support remains, urban infrastructures remain and therefore the perishability of the wall work, destined to ruin and disappear due to the weather, just as in the Buddhist tradition, where the "mandala" is periodically "destroyed" to remind the fallen of things and their rebirth. "Hybrids" is the point of arrival of this journey: an atypical personality, in which all the works were made in four hands, in collaboration with other artists. The reason for this choice is sought in the desire to tell both the lives of the artist: on the one hand, the past, the fundamental source of his research, recalled by a "team work" on canvases and cards that evokes the typical teamwork of writing , where the crew plays a key role in the "getting up" of the name and often also in the creation of large works or in situations of particular danger; from the sky the present, in which the abstract figures entering the circumscribed perimeter of the tunnel assume the form of algorithms, moving subatomic particles, molecules and galaxies, infinitely large and infinitely small that determine the limits of human perception and refer back to the spirituality of works on the wall, from which they are detached in technique, in size and often in forms. "Hybrids" is a unique opportunity to appreciate Riccardo Lanfranco's twenty-year research to study the evolving collaborations that have already been consolidated (Mr. Fijodor, Etnik, Vesod, Reser ...) and to discover completely new twists (108, Bartocci, Aris ...) that will enrich another path, another one, starting from here. Pietro Rivasi (Icons Modena, D406 gallery) francesco barbieri · 108 · giulio vesprini · giorgio bartocci · vesod · aris · ethnic · square23 art gallery · mrfijodor · corn79 riccardo lanfranco · andrrea · eon75 · fabrizio minone · hide · jeroo · mach505 · made514 · Proembrion · rems182 · reser · romi · ruas · zoer · zorkmade