MILAN.- Circoloquadro presents Andrea Fiorino’s first personal exhibition in the city of Milan, titled Lost Paradise and curated by Elisa Fusi. For the occasion, the artist exhibits his latest project through an innovative and site-specific display.

Andrea Fiorino is a young Sicilian artist now based in Milan. His first personal exhibition presents the outcome of his latest artistic research: a conceptual show with an original and site-specific set-up, which won’t cease to surprise the visitors: imaginary forests and primordial woods are the fantastic background, home to ancient individuals who reminds us of a universal cosmogony, portrayed through a rich and powerful color choice.

As the curator Elisa Fusi says: “Fiorino’s project can be considered immortal, out of time, visually expressed through rounded shapes and fluid color touches. Fiorino sees the body like a gate, a wound or even a crack that can be transpassed and from which new life is created, connecting his thought directly with the words of the Old Testament and with the Creation of men.

The image shows an ever-evolving world, where everything is in constant change and is determined by the innate immortality of nature. A spiritual and harmonic paradise, now inevitably lost”.

Lost Paradise is connected to the conceptual core of Fiorino’s artistic research. The title also contextualizes the subject of each piece, ancient men who belong to a pre-historic, not-yet-civilized world, and who reside in a lost paradise.

The iconographic and thematic sources of this project are, in fact, images of the Creation of men, both in the meaning of the Old Testament, or deduced from non-Christian religious traditions, such as the oriental ones, or even from more ancient and primitive cults.

The Creation is the moment when the human being appears on Earth for the first time and, interacting with the natural world, becomes its true inhabitant, relying on nature to live and obtain nurturing and protection. In Fiorino’s paintings the natural elements (water, earth and air) are the original scenario in which men operate and live, but also symbolic entities once again met in primitive, non-western imageries, such as Totems.

Fiorino’s artistic language is powerfully expressive and relies on the communicative possibilities of color. Color itself is spread with wide and fluid brush strokes and in loud nuances. The effect is undeniably strong and incisive, reminding us of tribal masks or cave paintings from a different Age. Everything is coherent with the theme of the artist’s research: the lost paradise where men and mother Nature once co-lived in harmony and respect, not yet deteriorated by civilization and progress.

Circoloquadro is a cultural association based in Milan, dedicated to intercepting the newest and most interesting artistic trends and giving appropriate space and attention to young artists, both Italian and international. This particular curatorial perspective is what distinguishes Circoloquadro from other exhibition centers in the city, together with the educational intent of the various courses held in the space throughout the year.

Andrea Fiorino was born in 1990 in Augusta (SiracusA) and now lives and works in Milan. After his University studies in Graphics at Brera Academy, he’s now taking painting courses for his Master’s degree. He participated to individual and collective exhibits, both in and outside of Italy.