Filippo Minelli 'In your Ass'

Contribution to the #TransPrivacy-project in Düsseldorf 2011

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Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011 & Stefan Riebel 'In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.)', 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011 & Stefan Riebel 'In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.)', 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011 - big
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011
Filippo Minelli - In your Ass, 2011

FILIPPO MINELLI
*1983 in Brescia, Italy

Public and conceptual interventism, narrative photography and language painting.

Filippo Minelli forces the occasional viewer of his artworks, and the people fond of his artworks too, to an intellectual gym, stimulating scratching contrasts in our minds. Following conceptual tendences, Minelli pursues a non-objectual dimension of Arts searching relations between the work of art and reality, with culture and social behaviours as clear in his "contradictions" serie. In Minelli's interventions is investigated the theme of Arts as writing with a resolute "interventist" urge which charges the artist's action with social-disobedience, instigating the viewer against the superficial and the commercial and cultural deadness of contemporary society. Sometimes Minelli organizes his interventions in series which evolve during the years. A succesful example beside the already-said "contradiction" is the "Google" serie.
The second essential element of the artistic production of Filippo Minelli is photography as a narration of the installations. Reflecting Walter Benjamin's precepts, the point of view of the artist uses photography as a way to tell a story. The work of art is presented tracing contrasts and inconsistences between the location choosen and the linguistic-conceptual contribution. Language and image coincide in the photograph, gragging along conscious and sub-conscious thoughts.
The third typology of the artistic production of Filippo Minelli is painting, in which letters intersect on the canvass following articulate geometries, characterized by decorations rendering the word a mirror of reality. His painting is thorough, the gesture is shrewd. The materic sperimentations are refined and elegant with the use of wax, gold leaf, oxidized silver, collage and decollage of papers and textiles. Minelli also experiments with a more instinctive approach to painting. Interesting are also the last sperimentations between painting and technological codes.

Text copied from his website. get more infos there:
http://www.filippominelli.com/

Filippo Minelli's "Contradictions" | 2008

"Facebook", spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako - Mali, 2008
"Microsoft", Paint on barrels, Bamako-Mali. 2008
"Flickr", Paint on wall, Phnom Penh-Cambodia. 2007
"Myspace", Paint on wall, Phnom Penh-Cambodia. 2007