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Im interested in showing the specific moment when a body, a presence that belongs to a certain space,
becomes aware of an outside eye looking towards it. When its obliged to share his own nudity.
Im interested in the tension and resistance that moment creates. The lack of words and the paralysis
that ensues. I think it happens with living beings, places and with some kind of objects .
I want to paint fear and sweetness that can be framed in an image. Bodies, places, objects. The sweetness
of their loneliness and the threat of their immobility.
The subjects are chosen nearly casually, from photographs, scraps or notes, and it’s their possibility to
be alone, to be taken out from the rest that fascinates me. Once the subject is chosen, the painting is
build by progressively removing any of those that I recognize as tricks of an image, such as perspective,
regular or obvious shading, depth.
What has to resist in the painting has to belong to the same flesh, the same matter. Subject and
background have to exist on the same level. In a Way it’s like the research towards flattening that
obviously goes against sensation. I feel capable to call it a research of humanity.
I’m touched by those immobile places that look like cloths that have been used and simply left. When I
paint a landscape, a bush, I’m not interested in showing off nature, but it’s their degree of humanity
that keeps on fascinating me, because I somehow smell the presence of human being, that has gone
past carrying beauty and misery.
W?, 2005oil on canvas70 x 50 cm
Michelangelo Contini
Born 1976 in Milano, Italy, lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education2000 Degree at the University for Music and Art (DAMS), Bologna, Italy
Exhibitions2010 Stacks, II // I PROJECT SPACE, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition) Stacks-preview, DAS BÜRO, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition) Tropical office hours, DAS BÜRO, Berlin, Germany Alle auf eins, group show, TEMPORARY KUNSTRAUM, Berlin, Germany
2009 Awry, II // I PROJECT SPACE, Berlin, Germany
2005 Faccia, anche piede e ancora azzurro, FONDATIONE VILLA POMINI, Castellanza (Varese), Italy (solo exhibition)
2004 Sechs maler aus Berlin, BERLINER KUNST PROJECT, Berlin Ghost trio, LYCHENERSTR.52, Berlin, Germany
2003 Vor/Nach bilber, DER BLAUER SALON, Berlin, Germany
2002 Without dog, DEPOSITO BULK, Milano, Italy
2001 Galleria le giraffe, LINK PROJECT, Bologna, Italy
2000 Faccia, SESTO SENSO, Bologna, Italy (solo exhibition)
Publications2005 “Michelangelo Contini, faccia, anche piede e ancora azzurro”, FONDAZIONE VILLA POMINI Castellanza, Texts by Ettore Ceriani e Gloria Pasetto
CONTACTSMichelangelo ContiniHobrecht str. 712043 BerlinGermany
[email protected]: 0049(0)178 5633526