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MAssIMO FRANCHI
Lives and works in roma, italy
 w w w.massimofranchi.com
artist contact
 massimo.franchi@ilmessaggero.it

Did it never happen to you to see one of those
satellite photos which show Earth by night
with cities transformed in diamonds mines?
Approaching, everything moves, like magma
coming out from a volcano in eruption, red,
white, yellow or blue wakes that embroider a
lightened carpet, different any time. At every
day, hour, instant, a new design comes out,
another composition hypnotically enchants us.
Thousands of lighting points like eyes or pixel
seem to blaze us. They are the artificial lights of
our towns that make the show that steals the
scene to stars and planets. By now, we can’t see
anymore the starry sky like in past, when streets
were in the dark and romantics looked above,
promising each other about the future and trying
to get true their secret wishes. Now, for human
beings living in the city, the universe starts from
the street ground and ends just a bit higher,
may be a few meters, or some more in case
of higher skyscrapers. Everything moves and
shines, sliding on the rocks and on the asphalt,
transformed on a bright mirror from a rain that
makes magic the atmosphere. Car lights and
neon signs are reflected in it, creating clusters
of precious stones or comets whose tails get
entrapped in the man-holes and among traffic-
lights and street-lamps. If lights were missing,
even would miss a space where to stop and to
recognize each other, or where thought could
rest, and we neither could know where to meet
each other. This is the magic of the city in the
night, of the street lamps; it’s among them that
we feel sure and caressed from the warmness of
iodine, xenon, argon or neon lamps, never mind,
provided they would light the way and would
show us clearly the friend who walks with us or
PArKIng LOT, 2005 mixeD meDia on canvas, 40x50 in. /100x120 cm. those who sees us during our life. TRENDS
MOVed CArs, 2005 mixeD meDia on canvas, 32x40 in. /80x100 cm.
WreCK, 2005 mixeD meDia on canvas, 32x40 in. /80x100 cm