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LUIGI MAPELLI (MAPO)
art now Lives and works in Milano, Italy

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Mapo is a painter of thoughts and improbable events, a poet of waiting,
who draws silence by inventing metaphysical horizons. His visions
come from the culture of the twentieth century, and not only from the
masters of Surrealism, but also from the painting of absence, like that of
Giorgio De Chirico; his scenarios of figures and objects so well outlined,
state the affirmation that life is nothing more than an intermittent
dream, illusion, perhaps a lie and in any case an undecipherable
mystery. Questioning himself, he acts with a manipulation of figures
and objects immobilized in a context of conceptually disconcerting
elements. His palette is sunny and fluid, loving the same tones as De
Chirico, or Scipione, while his expressiveness has the unexpected
gift of considerable formal cleanliness. The silence that envelops
these precious compositions could also appear as the representative
intention of a rationality that prearranges the figural combinations

according to the schemes and paths of his predecessors of Surrealism;
but the brightness and the phantasmagoria of his layers, the deep
perspectives and the mise en abîme reveal the irruption of an even
more complex and problematic fantasizing, which also feeds on
emotions, subjective impressions and, probably, the matter of his
own dreams. While defining the boundaries between a probable truth
and the existential enigma, he lets glimpse the sounding line of his
conscience, and perhaps also the trace of events connected to his life
experience. Each of these appearances can therefore be defined as
an atom of memory, which has settled in intelligent painting and in an
allusive layout dense with symbols and ethical warnings.
Professor Paolo Levi, Art Critic
 Not named, Computer graphics, Ddigital art 19.6x19.6 in. | 50x50 cm.
 Not named, Computer graphics, Ddigital art 19.6x19.6 in. | 50x50 cm.
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