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Luigi Mapelli (Mapo)

Lives and works in Milano, Italy
http://www.artemape.com/

Mapo: The Painter of Thoughts and Improbable Events His expressiveness is distinguished by a remarkable formal
Mapo is a painter of thoughts and improbable events, cleanliness, an uncommon gift that lends his works a

a poet of waiting who sketches silence by inventing rare elegance. The silence that envelops these precious
metaphysical horizons. His visions are deeply rooted in compositions might appear as the representative intention
20th-century culture, drawing not only from the masters of a rationality that preordains figurative juxtapositions

of Surrealism but also from the art of absence, like that of according to the schemes of his surrealist predecessors.
Giorgio De Chirico. His scenes, populated by well-defined However, the luminosity and phantasmagoria of his layers,
figures and objects, assert that life is nothing but an the deep perspectives, and the mises en abîme reveal the
intermittent dream, an illusion, perhaps a lie, and certainly eruption of an even more complex and problematic fantasy.
an indecipherable mystery. This fantasy feeds on emotions, subjective impressions, and

Constantly questioning himself, Mapo manipulates figures probably the substance of his own dreams.
and objects, immobilizing them in contexts filled with While defining the boundaries between probable truth
conceptually disorienting elements. His palette is sunny and and existential enigma, Mapo allows glimpses into the

fluid, favoring the same tones as De Chirico and Scipione. depths of his consciousness and perhaps traces of

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FLYING ELEPHANTS, 2024 DIGITAL ART 19.6X35.4 IN. | 50X90 CM.

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