Biography
Massimo Nesti’s artistic expression concentrates on various themes: the very first is the pursuit of contact and fusion between man and nature, the metamorphosis that sees man embrace the natural primordial form after having passed through various stages, and various phases.
On second analysis the continuous struggle of the individual against his fellowmen presents a perplexed man, capable of reacting to the messages of the surrounding environment, yet still full of doubts and uncertainties, disconcerted by the events of the outside world.
Thus emerges a hidden desire of the individual to ask himself whether the road he is travelling is the right one, whether it is worth fighting all the battles or to the contrary whether to set his sights on nature and to blend in with it without causing damage.
The picture of man presented by the artist takes on a closely-woven path full of obstacles and difficulties of every kind and in which he always tends to retrace his steps so as not to betray his conscience and passions.
Materials are moulded and evolve through ellipses and embryonic forms that develop into gestures, hands, bodies and expressions of suffering that are perceived faintly through the composition and which reflect today’s era of violence.
The artist particularly looks to instil and to communicate with the user a sort of equilibrium in the battles, in the struggles, in his studies of vegetable chromia which recall the shades of a wood, a hedge, a leaf: it is a hymn to man's union with nature, to the body in flesh and blood which unites with the tree, to the blood that blends with the sap of the branch.
The various subjects are merged during the battle: the arms which hurl out the fatal blow with ardour, during their movement tend to transform themselves into branches, which, in an unusual embrace, display their green foliage with pride.
The cyclic nature of the individual is here described in a detailed manner by the artist, who follows his own logic of transformation, of change, through the theme of struggle and battle which are resolved first and foremost in a chiaroscuro manner, then with the use of chromia which gradually fade away into the colours of nature, water and earth until they take over completely.
