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MASSIMO FRANCHI

Lives and works in Roma, Italy
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Did it ever happen to you to see one of those satellite photos which show the more in case of higher skyscrapers. Everything moves and shines, sliding
Earth by night with cities transformed in diamonds mines? Upon approaching, on the rocks and on the asphalt, transformed on a bright mirror from a rain
everything moves, like magma coming out from a volcano erupting, red, white, which makes magic the atmosphere. Car lights and neon signs are reflected
yellow or blue waves that embroider a lit carpet, different each moment. in it, creating clusters of gems or comets whose tails get entrapped in the
At every day, hour, instant, a new design comes out, another composition man-holes and among traffic-lights and street-lamps. If lights were missing,
hypnotically enchants us. Thousands of light points like eyes or pixel seem even would miss a space where to stop and recognize the other, or where
to blaze at us. They are the artificial lights of our towns who make the show thought could rest, and we could not know where to meet each other. This
that steals the scene to stars and planets. By now, we can’t see the starry sky is the magic of the city at night, the magic of the street lamps; it’s among
anymore, like we did in past, when streets were in darkness and romantics them that we feel sure and caressed from the warmth of the iodine, xenon,
looked above, promising each other about the future and trying to materialize argon or neon lamps, never mind what type, provided they would light the
their secret wishes. Now, for human beings living in the city, the universe starts way and would show us clearly the friend who walks with us or those who
from the street level and ends just a bit higher, may be a few meters, or some see us during our life.

STRADE, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 40X47 IN. /100X120 CM. 
WRECK, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 32X40 IN. /80X100 CM. 
 PARKING LOT, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, CM.100X120, 2005 ROADS, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 36X47 IN. /90X120 CM. 
MOVED CARS 1, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 32X40 IN. /80X100 CM.  TRAFFIC, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 36X47 IN. /90X120 CM. 
MOVED CARS 2, 2005 MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 32X40 IN. /80X100 CM.  HIGHWAY, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 40X40 IN. /100X100 CM. 

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