Francesco De Prezzo: self-consciousness
Exhibitions, Italy, Brescia, 10 January 2015
The impact with the painting by Francesco De Prezzo took place through an email. Precisely for this reason, perhaps, I remain impressed because I should not be so: the art should be lived. A face me a whirlwind of sensations in the power of virtual gestures, in the synthesis of white black in a line, in the pleasure of a photograph that the galactic distance between a box of pixels and the light reflected in the eyes can not even distrarmene nell'azzeramento displacement perceptible. In other words the illusion of simultaneous insights on the screen as if the painting s'espandesse in the visual area.
The images, in fact, seem to be moving along a line drawn with pastel on canvas and concrete set in an architectural space and white minimalist Ylium Gallery in London, and the interpretation becomes real event of a talent that has been able to present itself well through representative elements differentiated and of particular importance in this contemporary art that has hung the brushes in the attic and think you can do without.
Not so for De Prezzo moves in the informal attributable to Widow and abstract expressionism due to Barnett Newman, and that the combination of the different arts, from videos to performances, from installations to music, from photography to digital, holds painting into account and also uses the same hands to paint, to the sound of music would say to watch the video of action painting, where he works on large canvases with the instinct of liberating inner energies that relies on prospects reversible painting gestural.
Visiting his study shows the research on the "border" psychic who conceives analyzing intangible aspects of painting and the appropriate body to the extreme as in the performance "Act to suspace", suspended from a crane in a vacuum, or in the video where space a canvas becomes a means of awareness of the "limit", as a place in which to transpose the determination to tell their stories, when "the pain does not intend to listen to reason, because the pain has its own reason that it is not reasonable," wrote Milan Kundera. It ''s obsession as black is present and more white is light to welcome traces of red life-giving, including new constraints and new shadows that outline his poetry as in the physicality of a Saint Sebastian or nell'urlo Munch.
And 'confrontation with the reality that conquest in Francesco De Prezzo expressive power existential common to many young people between dreams and anxieties, teatralizzando sometimes their feelings in Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, but the mood is good and creativity it is the glue, to bring out the thought free from subjectivity in self-consciousness, perhaps listening to "Here comes the rain again" in the arrangement of the Eurythmics Hypnogaja.

Andrea Barretta


Francesco De Prezzo e was born in Lecce April 21, 1994 and follows the family in Brescia. He graduated from Art School and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Laba. Develops interest in painting, photography and video also increases individually knowledge in the visual arts by attending artists' studios in Italy and abroad. Currently studying and working in the production of short films, especially in Switzerland, makes videos and working with David Guetta, the French record producer. In 2013 he directed the video "Crazy World" Dj Antoine analyzing the relationship between art and music. The first personal, "In the Sign of the Black", opened at the Palace of Culture in Breno (Brescia), in 2012, then to Villa Damioli Pisogne, and the following year she was in New York in the collective "Perceptions space" to Latin Art Gallery. Under "Artists in residence" is chosen for the Medieval village of Bienno. In 2013, following the collective Darfo by Massimo Facchini and Giorgio Azzoni, then the realization of the video installation "Description" and experimentation with digital photographic prints and performance "Act to suspace" Salice Salentino, as part of a project documented in photographs resulting from performance works on the perception of space / body in lived experience in 'act. In 2014 the important staff to Ylium Gallery in London entitled "The border", with the presentation of Patrik Miller, and the collective in Italy "In the sign of the red" in Darfo with Perry Bianchini. In 2015 the exhibition at the Gallery in Brescia ab / arts, edited and with critical presentation of Andrea Barretta.

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