- Andrea Martinucci
Carezze
Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea is pleased to present Carezze, the second solo show by the artist Andrea Martinucci (Rome, 1991) in the gallery’s exhibition spaces. On show, a series of paintings produced over the past two years, which express the kindness and the tenacity of pictorial gesture through the research and the reconstruction of the caress.
The artist’s research expresses itself through the creation of assemblies, lacerations and overlapping able to active imaginary architectures and transversal narrations. Three years after his last show, Martinucci returns to the gallery with a corpus of works realized around the figure of an oleander, a seductive and at the same time toxic plant, which Martinucci chooses as a metaphor of the context in which he lives and works. Attracted by the ambivalent nature of this tree, Martinucci tests his pictorial practice through the obsessive and stubborn transposition of its leaves. The repetition of the same element generates a visual stratification of links on the pictorial surface, in which the natural element gradually loses its appearance blending with other objects, images and figures that emerge as free associations. Rubber gloves, horses, chairs, rings, hair clips: fragments that interrupt the linearity of the vision projecting us into surreal and at times dystopian realities.
As the title suggests – a reference to the sensitivity of the pictorial gesture – the works displayed at Renata Fabbri’s gallery seem to question a world based on the preeminence of reason, welcoming, contrarily, everything that is unknown, fortuitous and excluded. An act of kindness that happens when we break the fine line that separates us from the world and we approach other forms of sociality made up of caring and listening: primary needs of our daily life. In this way, the pictorial medium is not merely expression for Martinucci, rather a tool of struggle, as proof of all those missing acts that still need to be carried out.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication realized by Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea with texts by Beatrice Favaretto, Damiano Gullì, Manuela Pacella and a letter by Andrea Martinucci.
Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea is pleased to present Carezze, the second solo show by the artist Andrea Martinucci (Rome, 1991) in the gallery’s exhibition spaces. On show, a series of paintings produced over the past two years, which express the kindness and the tenacity of pictorial gesture through the research and the reconstruction of the caress.
The artist’s research expresses itself through the creation of assemblies, lacerations and overlapping able to active imaginary architectures and transversal narrations. Three years after his last show, Martinucci returns to the gallery with a corpus of works realized around the figure of an oleander, a seductive and at the same time toxic plant, which Martinucci chooses as a metaphor of the context in which he lives and works. Attracted by the ambivalent nature of this tree, Martinucci tests his pictorial practice through the obsessive and stubborn transposition of its leaves. The repetition of the same element generates a visual stratification of links on the pictorial surface, in which the natural element gradually loses its appearance blending with other objects, images and figures that emerge as free associations. Rubber gloves, horses, chairs, rings, hair clips: fragments that interrupt the linearity of the vision projecting us into surreal and at times dystopian realities.
As the title suggests – a reference to the sensitivity of the pictorial gesture – the works displayed at Renata Fabbri’s gallery seem to question a world based on the preeminence of reason, welcoming, contrarily, everything that is unknown, fortuitous and excluded. An act of kindness that happens when we break the fine line that separates us from the world and we approach other forms of sociality made up of caring and listening: primary needs of our daily life. In this way, the pictorial medium is not merely expression for Martinucci, rather a tool of struggle, as proof of all those missing acts that still need to be carried out.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication realized by Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea with texts by Beatrice Favaretto, Damiano Gullì, Manuela Pacella and a letter by Andrea Martinucci.
Andrea Martinucci, Ieri non eri con me, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Finestra, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 111x167x2,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Dialogo con quarta figura, 2022Acrylic, graphite and ink on canvas, 15x21x3 cm. Ph. Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Quattro rovesci nel buio, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Domenica, 2022Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 111x167x2,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Tu ridevi io fumavo, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Grattacieli con alberi, 2022Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, L’esistenza minuta, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Noi, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 111x167x2,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Tutti i fiori che mangerò, 2022Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Matrice, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame, 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli.
Andrea Martinucci, Era scritto così, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame. 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli
Andrea Martinucci, A occhi chiusi, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame. 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli
Andrea Martinucci, Nel fiume che si sciacqua, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame. 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli
Andrea Martinucci, Sibille, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame. 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli
Andrea Martinucci, Giravolte oplà, 2021Acrylic and graphite on canvas with sublimated wood frame. 48x68x5,5 cm. Ph: Alberto Fanelli
Andrea Martinucci (Rome, 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works between Milan and Rome. He works across painting, writing and moving images. His artistic process takes place through assemblages and overlaps across diversified contents. By composing images through modification, fragmentation and hybridisation, the artist elaborates metaphorical nonlinear narratives. His works employ humor, absurdity and poetry to explore themes such as memory loss (whether real or surrogate), experiences and sublimation processes, in order to hypothesize other consciences. His observation of reality translates into the rethinking of everyday objects emptied of their daily value, as ruins expelled from a society speeding towards its own collapse. He then processes these unconscious contents that are able to welcome the mysterious reminiscences to Unknown Universes, ultimately letting viewers decipher the resulting multitude of symbols for themselves.
His work has been exhibited in institutional and experimental spaces such as Institut Français – Palazzo delle Stelline (Milan IT, 2016); IIC Los Angeles (Los Angeles USA, 2022); Mattatoio (Rome IT, 2016); Palazzo Reale (Milan IT, 2019); Tang Contemporary Art (Hong Kong CN, 2020); FuturDome (Milan IT, 2017); Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome IT, 2012); IUNO (Rome IT, 2022); VUNU Gallery (Kosice SK, 2020); ZETA Contemporary Art Center (Tirana AL, 2021); Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce (Genoa IT, 2012); Museum of Art and Archaeology of Maremma (Grosseto IT, 2017); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome IT, 2012) and In De Ruimte Space (Gent BE, 2019).
In 2020 he was among the winners of Cantica21. Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere (supported by Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Culture and by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), with Turbomondi (Melodia), a video installation destined for the Public Collection of Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome, IT. He took part in several projects, among which: Tonight we are young – New Italian Art, Triennale (Milan IT, 2022); Fenomeno Pasquarosa, La Fondazione – Nicola Del Roscio Foundation (Rome IT, 2020); MANIFesta – Iniziative di II, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome IT, 2021), Rereading the Archive, ICA Foundation (Milan, IT 2022) and SPRINT, O’ Space (Milan IT, 2017).
Andrea Martinucci (Rome, 1991) is a visual artist who lives and works between Milan and Rome. He works across painting, writing and moving images. His artistic process takes place through assemblages and overlaps across diversified contents. By composing images through modification, fragmentation and hybridisation, the artist elaborates metaphorical nonlinear narratives. His works employ humor, absurdity and poetry to explore themes such as memory loss (whether real or surrogate), experiences and sublimation processes, in order to hypothesize other consciences. His observation of reality translates into the rethinking of everyday objects emptied of their daily value, as ruins expelled from a society speeding towards its own collapse. He then processes these unconscious contents that are able to welcome the mysterious reminiscences to Unknown Universes, ultimately letting viewers decipher the resulting multitude of symbols for themselves.
His work has been exhibited in institutional and experimental spaces such as Institut Français – Palazzo delle Stelline (Milan IT, 2016); IIC Los Angeles (Los Angeles USA, 2022); Mattatoio (Rome IT, 2016); Palazzo Reale (Milan IT, 2019); Tang Contemporary Art (Hong Kong CN, 2020); FuturDome (Milan IT, 2017); Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome IT, 2012); IUNO (Rome IT, 2022); VUNU Gallery (Kosice SK, 2020); ZETA Contemporary Art Center (Tirana AL, 2021); Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce (Genoa IT, 2012); Museum of Art and Archaeology of Maremma (Grosseto IT, 2017); Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome IT, 2012) and In De Ruimte Space (Gent BE, 2019).
In 2020 he was among the winners of Cantica21. Italian Contemporary Art Everywhere (supported by Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Culture and by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), with Turbomondi (Melodia), a video installation destined for the Public Collection of Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome, IT. He took part in several projects, among which: Tonight we are young – New Italian Art, Triennale (Milan IT, 2022); Fenomeno Pasquarosa, La Fondazione – Nicola Del Roscio Foundation (Rome IT, 2020); MANIFesta – Iniziative di II, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Rome IT, 2021), Rereading the Archive, ICA Foundation (Milan, IT 2022) and SPRINT, O’ Space (Milan IT, 2017).
- Bea Bonafini,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Serena Vestrucci
October 14 – 16, 2022
Main Section
Pav. 12 – Booth H7
- T-Yong Chung,
- Andrea Martinucci,
- Florian Roithmayr
October 11-13, 2019
Pav. 12 – Booth SC7
- Rebecca Ackroyd,
- Sophie Ko,
- Andrea Martinucci
October 13-15, 2018
Pav. 12 – Booth SC7
- Serena Vestrucci
The work Abbronzatissimi (2023) is now part of the permanent collection of the Santa Maria della Scala Museum in Siena
