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Macchia Michele attended Scenography for a year at the Academy
CONTEMPORARY MYTHOLOGICAL RAPTODONTE, ACRILYC ON PAPER & CANVAS 47X39 IN. | 120X100 CM.
of Fine Arts in Bari in Puglia. He exhibits in numerous national and
INVITED ARTIST BAROCCO SPACE STATION, 2018 STRATIFIED COLLAGE & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 39X59 IN. | 100X150 CM. the United States of America. His painting has been published in
FLUO RHINO, 2011 ACRILYC ON ADVERTISING ON CANVAS 80X120 CM.
international exhibitions and competitions in Europe, Asia and
several catalogues and art books
SENSORIAL SPACE, 2018 ACRILYC ON CANVAS 31.4X47 IN. | 80X120 CM.

MICHELE MACCHIA

Lives and works in Corato, Puglia, Italy
http://web.tiscali.it/leonardesca/galleria/michelot.htm

The premise is that the way I paint develops in three different ways.
The first is the classic way, that is the only painting, where I use
mostly acrylic colors that have a brilliant yield, just right for the result
I want to get. In summary, after drawing the main part of the work
that I want to represent, I think about the color , and at the same time,
while the work changes I feel transported by the energy coming from
the surrounding space like air, the cosmos , The universe, the music,
the inner energy ext... It comes through the mind and goes into my
hands, which are the tool to bring the work to life.
The second way is like the first, as described, but on a canvas where
I previously past pieces of paper or newspapers, advertisements,
posters and so on. This serves to create backstage scenery and helps
to give depth to the work and make the picture real.
So two types of communication and narrative are created.
The third way is the Collage, which I call stratified collage, in which
I add, instead of destroying and subtracting. In this way I create
multiple levels of reading. Also color creates another layer.
Color is the primary element of my work that is constantly evolving,
and the design that it conceals inside is also very important because
is the frame, the skeleton that supports the narration of Opera; The
primary idea is that in a world where consumerism is expanding and
advertisement is imperative, the work must adapt to all this becoming
something that really catches the eye of Observer and something
that strikes and hypnotize him, otherwise nobody will notice it.
That’s why I use bright colors, words and images taken from ads. Also
for the collage I focus on issues such as consumerism, deception and
vanity of present society, forming a compositional way of symbolizing
virtual concepts that denounce the ephemeral and the visionary, by
analyzing the degradation of the Content and the image consumption.
It is destined for its very nature to quickly exhaust all the fragile and
evanescent myths typical of our time. They are metaphysical images
that slip into a surrealism of chromatic and morphological impacts,
in which cubist elements blend into rhythms of colors, fluid forms
and great cinematic and stylizations, ancestral references to an
intellectual and spiritual path, a vision of a world Observed with deep
critical sense, but also with sarcasm and mocking detachment from
the advertising world.

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