ECCE HOMO – FROM MAY 18 TO JUNE 15

Antonio Mallus born of that cultural koine that was informal painting, devoting his attention, however, after a short period of conceptual influences character Manzoni (but always in a pictorial context), the painting of gesture, sign, and so the case.
The end result of his paintings is always the sum of an infinite series of brief touches, large masses of matter, long strokes, stubettature linear or punctiform; continuous movements, casting and / or thoughtful acts to create a work hour
monochrome, now rich in color.
The difference in results lies in the medium or media that he uses: oil on canvas and mixed media on paper and cardboard: while the oil, half slow, forces him to lengthy and thoughtful pauses, where the gesture can be added ( stubettare) or subtractive (bursting on the surface by digging), the paper free from all hesitation and puts in evidence the movement continues.
Abstract Expressionism with pure due to contamination that has been in the last half century with contemporary currents adjacent or opposite.
This is demonstrated in both form and in concept from those grammars Mallus took the pure color, often primary or complementary, and the increasingly frequent appearance of figurative implications autre, now sketched now more organic.
Ecce Homo is the actual result of that location: it is abundant on the investigation of an anthropomorphic variant recognizable and articulate albeit synthetic, such as carvings (Egyptian Monkeys), even those found in Sardinia (Cave of the Pope in Tavolara ) or urban graffiti or painting the border of the Eighties (New Savages or
Basquiat for instance).
Archetypal forms are generated by Painting Action and inserted into a context of Action Painting, made so to remember the idea that ancient tribal rhythms chasing meager representation of where they are well marked only the limbs, head and genitals , because this was the essence of our ancestors, primitive man: to move, hunt, think and reproduce;
all actions that are creative and well grown man until it became what it is now.
Massimo Antonio Sanna

M.A.G.E. Museum of the Arch of Genoa – Via F. Twins, 2 – Cagliari (beside the Church SS. George and Catherine)   From Friday, May 18 to Friday, June 15, 2012 Visiting hours: h 18-20 free entry

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