La fuga di Andrea Bortolon (The escape of Andrea Bortolon) - Aldo Spoldi

"La fuga di Andrea Bortolon" (The escape of Andrea Bortolon) is the title of the work taken from the "Mondo Nuovo" (New World) by Aldo Spoldi (Crema - 1950) and painted by the student of the Brera Academy, Arianna De Stefani.
The fibrillating image of Andrea Bortolon intends to continue the didactic project started in 1996 at the Brera Academy "Frammenti di vita-Cristina Show" (Fragments of life-Cristina Show) involving students from 1996 to 2018, moving towards the future from the compelling and ironic “Accademia dello Scivolo”.

Spoldi's production is characterized by the strongly theoretical nature of his work, by the connection between words and images and by the narrative and performative language: he has always composed his works by treating the surface (from the wooden table to the wall) as the space of action of his characters and alter egos. He draws from his personal archive to generate new works (The policeman and the 3D translation of the virtual characters Angelo Bortolon, the Eater of Worlds and Cristina Show ...), staging new narratives, in which some constants of the artist's reflection (the stratification of time, play, the economic dimension of art) are reactivated, taking on further meanings, creating new worlds. This mode of action and vision of the artist is thus intertwined with the many stories that can be composed with the figurines: the history of explorations, industrial innovation and the history of work, the world of goods and the city, the game, fairy tale, novel and museum, masks and uniforms, coins and stamps. Even the stickers represent narrative devices born to convey messages through their recomposition within albums, through collection and exchange, generating games and competitions over time.

BIOGRAPHY

Aldo Spoldi was born in Crema in 1950, where he lives and works. He studied at the Beato Angelico art school and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Ironic, playful, theatrical artist, painter, sculptor, musician, writer, professor at the Brera Academy and member of the Pataphysics Society. The development of his activity coincides with the transformation of art and society, each of which is reflected in the various phases of his work.


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