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Michele Macchia: seeks the instant, the unusualness of the same to convert
icons, totems, characters and visual ruminations it into a moment of reflection and play.
It is clear that his collages are baroque, with a profusion
Michele Macchia uses multiple techniques, materials of characters, seeking diversity in the affirmation of the

and supports, from acrylic on wood, canvas, advertising central concept, which rattles off naturally in the middle
elements or cardboard, through collage and mixed of the plastic discourse subject to the idea.
techniques on advertising displays, canvas and more. It maintains a social position, at times critical, but also

reflective, in search of harmony and balance on the planet,
His works delve into painting and collage, offering us focusing on peace to rediscover a dynamic of overcoming
a clear contrast of photography, collage, painting and and understanding starting from a playful position first
iconicity. However, when he wants, he transforms and then converting into a social and emotional one, in
himself into aniconic, establishing a dynamic that is addition to rationality and essentiality.

expressed in a dichotomous key, showing on the one
hand famous characters, film and television stars and He wants to connect to the world of social ideas, with the
on the other compositions, insinuating forms, gestures analysis of a society that is based on exteriority, which is

and abstractions on a variety of media, including the losing its deepest ideals, showing its impasse with good
advertising ones stand out. All this offers a permissive humor, but also offering imaginative solutions in an ironic
and conjugated game in such a way as to allow him to key so that we can all overcome without preconceived
present a creation characterized by a range of possibilities, notions the examination of our existence, obtaining the
representing diversity united by the same common thread: praise.

unity in diversity, in the fleetingness of the instant. He also Joan Lluís Montané,
President Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA)

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