ANTONIO BRANDIMARTE PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS 2017 2020
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ANTONIO BRANDIMARTE
PORTFOLIO
SELECTED WORKS 2017 - 2020
STATEMENT His artistic practice is based on related concepts which are: Maps and geography of the countries. The contemporary perception of the landscape, between real and digital. Historical and traditional trip and routes. As he often stresses, drawing is for him a way to think about the space that surrounds us. After he graduated from Accademia di belle arti di Firenze In 2017, Antonio was granted an Art Residency by Art Apartments in London, which inspired him to take a fresh look at an old English custom of a traditional trip of Europe with a project called ‘Reverse Grand Tour’. In his latest research he have been working with large journey and routes that have characterized history, culture and the collective imagination. He relates them to the contemporary perception of the landscape in the post-media society. One of them was, in 2019, the ‘New Silk Road’ research inspired by the geographical-economical strategy of the Chinese republic called ‘one Belt one Road’.
ZONE ROSSE SU PAESAGGI IMMAGINARI
PERSONAL PROJECT - QUARANTINE - ITALY - 2020
During the quarantine period
from Covid-19 in Italy in March,
April 2020 I developed a series
that investigates the external
landscape; specially the Italian
landscape taken from some of my
personal memories in a time of
imprisonment in which I could not
physically walk outside or travel.
A series of artwork composed of
collages of photographs taken
and collected over the years
during family holidays, on which
landscapes overlapped between
the imaginary and reality. The
red chromatic areas on the map
are also alluding to the territories
that were limited and blocked
during the lockdown, called in
italian “red areas” (zone rosse).
The reality has gone beyond
imagination; these works are
nothing more than a way to
elaborate the present time and
tell what I could not do with
words.
13.04.2020 VOGLIA DI VOLARE VIA
Mixed media on paper: pencil,
permanent marker, photo and glue on
paper;
35 x 25 cm;
2020
[6/6]
13.04.2020 ZONE ROSSE IN CAMPAGNA Mixed media on paper: pencil, permanent marker, photo and glue on paper; 35 x 25 cm; 2020 [5/6]
12.04.2020 NULLA DA DIRE Mixed media on paper: pencil, permanent marker, photo and glue on paper; 35 x 25 cm; 2020 [1/6]
12.04.2020 ZONA ROSSE Mixed media on paper: pencil, permanent marker, photo and glue on paper; 35 x 25 cm; 2020
DIARIO DI QUARANTENA
PERSONAL PROJECT - QUARANTINE - ITALY - 2020
During the quarantine period
from Covid-19 in Italy, in March
and April 2020, I decided to work
on a series that portrays everyday
objects, including some that we
were not used to using: such as
surgical mask and gloves.
I chose to work with white
tempera on paper because it
represents in my perception
words as: daily, aseptic, delicate,
indefinite, uncertain, reassuring.
This quarantine diary (diario di
quarantena) show the importance
of the present moment that
was captured in the artwork, a
moment that otherwise would
be gone.
20.03.2020
Tempera on paper;
21 x 30 cm;
2020
[3/12]
12.03.2020 Tempera on paper, 21x 30 cm, 2020 [2/12]
22.03.2020 Tempera on paper, 21x 30 cm, 2020 [5/12]
30.03.2020 Tempera on paper, 21x 30 cm, 2020 [10/12]
WIN WIN – LA NUOVA VIA DELLA SETA
PERSONAL PROJECT - FLORENCE - 2019
The “WIN WIN, the new silk
road” project take inspiration from
the economic and geographical
strategy of the “Belt ad Road
Initiative, New silk road”; a global
strategic initiative of the Republic
of China which involves the
development of infrastructure and
investments from Asia to Europe.
In March, 2019, the Italy-China
Memorandum was signed in
Rome. Through this agreement,
Italy’s journey along the new silk
road officially began. How, and
if, this connection will change our
perception of the landscape and
borders. With this project I try to
explore the connections between
people and places, between the
two cultures, European and Asian,
between the two borders that once
seemed so far away and that today
want to shorten distances.
I begin with digital painted
sketches, than later depicted on
canvas, in a series of six artwork,
trying to transport shapes that
belongs to digital space on a
physical canvas. In this project I
consider the artwork as platform,
as a place, as a “A new Silk Road”,
on which both sides coexist in a
“win-win” relationship.WIN-WIN #4 oil painting, enamels & tempera on canvas, 30 x 24 x 3,5 cm, 2019 [4/6] on the previous page: Digital painting, collage, photomontage, 2000x1700 pixel, RGB; 2019
VIA DELLA SETA METEOROLOGICA WIN-WIN #3 oil painting, enamels & tempera on canvas, 30 x 24 x 3,5 cm, 2019 [3/6]
ROAD WIN-WIN #6 oil painting, enamels & tempera on canvas, 30 x 24 x 3,5 cm, 2019 [6/6]
RIFLESSIONI INTORNO AL TEMA HABITAT,
OPPURE COME SPIEGARE LA MAPPA CON UN’ARANCIA
PERSONAL PROJECT - FLORENCE - 2019
The project visually represents
some of my thoughts on what can
be understood today with habitat or
the attempt to explain the map of
our planet with an orange.
There are three levels of habitat
within the work:
Organic, physical, digital.
It represents the outside but at the
same time is separated from it.
In this page
and on the next pages
Riflessioni intorno al tema Habitat,
oppure come spiegare la mappa con
un’arancia;
Mixed technique on wood in a plexiglass
box (cotton, orange peel, magazine
pages, glue, industrial enamel, plastic,
map pins, white corrector, ink);
57 x 34 x 6,5 cm;
2019APOPLUS - MAPPARE L’IMMAGINARIO
GROUP EXHIBITION - FORTRESS OF CORFÙ - GREECE - 2019
In 2019 was selected in the
collective exhibition “APOPLUS,
visual art dialogues between
Greek litterateurs and Calvino”
which was exhibited in the old
fortress of Corfu in Greece.
The work presented is called
“Mapping out the imaginary”
(mappare l’immaginario). This
artwork is a metaphor between
the words written by Italo Calvino
and the landscapes of Greece.
Words, architectures, colors,
signs, lines. Everything coexists
in one place, the artwork collects
them in one place. Together they
make impossible and imaginary
landscapes but vaguely familiar.Mappare l’immaginario; Mixed media on canvas: cotton, paper, ink, book pages, industrial enamels, pen on paper, tempera, glue; 37 x 30 cm; 2019
REVERSE GRAND TOUR
SOLO EXHIBITION - SHIPTON STREET GALLERY - LONDON- 2018
After he graduated from Accademia
di belle arti di Firenze In 2017,
Antonio was granted an Art
Residency by Art Apartments in
London, which inspired him to take
a fresh look at an old English custom
of a traditional trip of Europe, the
“Grand Tour”. Which was popular
around the 17th- and 18th- century
in Europe undertaken by upper-class
young English men to Italy.
With a project called ‘Reverse
Grand Tour’ he relates them to the
contemporary perception of the
landscape in the post-media society.
In this page
Reverse Grand Tour
Exhibition, London, 2018
From the left:
Untitled (Ponte tra Roma, Londra e
l’immaginario)
oil on canvas, 187 x 100 cm, 2017
Reverse Grand tour project
tempera and ink on printed page,
(4 pieces of 15 x 20 cm each), 2017
Map of imaginary London
mixed technique mounted on frame.
50x35 cm, 2017
on the next page
Untitled (Manchester ship canal su Castel
Sant’Angelo)
oil on canvas, 120x150 cm, 2017IMPOSSIBLE PROJETCS
ART RESIDENCY PROJECT- LONDON - 2017
During his artistic residency in
London, Antonio Brandimarte
worked on a series of ideas
and projects in a series called
‘Impossible Projects’. Walking
through the streets, bridges and
squares in London, the artist
transforms every urban space in
place of impossible exhibitions.
on this page
Exhibition n.1
tempera on Khadi cotton paper,
21x21 cm, 2017
[1/15] Impossible Project:
The works are hung on construction
cranes in an exhibition above the London
skylineLandscape reflections tempera on Khadi cotton paper, 21x21 cm, 2017 [3/15] Impossible Project: A huge mirror on Trafalgar Square that reflects the landscape
Shadow of the past landscape tempera on Khadi cotton papaer, 21x21 cm, 2017 [13/15] Impossible Project: The painted shadow of a now not existent building, site specific memorial project On the next page Impossible projects tempera on Khadi cotton paper, (series of 15 artworks 21x21 cm each), 2017
MAPPING THE MIRACLE CRASH SITE
GROUP EXHIBITION - #10YEARSOFSOCIAL - LONDON - 2018
On July 2018, We Are Social – UK
presented the artworks made by ten
artists, they were commissioned to
work on ten different topic for the
birthday event #10yearsofsocial of
We Are Social.
The italian artist Antonio Brandimarte
worked on the topic of The Hudson
river Twitpic with his artwork called
“Mapping the miracle crash site“.
In 2009, Captain Chesley ‘Sully’
Sullenberger landed a U.S. Airways
plane in the Hudson River, saving
the lives of all 155 passengers. Janis
Krums, captured the moment and
posted it to Twitter.
The artwork is realized with mixed
media mounted on a metal mesh.
All of this resulted in stunning event
held at London’s Omeara.
For Antonio Brandimarte the wire
mesh is the representation of the
Internet and the way we observe and
move in the contemporary digital
space. Everything is connected and
coexists in a map without borders,
which allows the user to be able to
make their own connections.
Mapping the miracle crash site
Mixed technique on wire mesh: tempera
on canvas; linoleum prints on paper;
ropes; ties.
100 x 62,5 cm, 2018
On the next page
Mapping the miracle crash site
DetailUNO SGUARDO DALL’ALTO: LA MAPPA E IL VIAGGIO
DEGREE SHOW - ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI FIRENZE - FLORENCE - 2017
“A look from above: the map
and the journey” (Uno sguardo
dall’alto: la mappa e il viaggio)
the master degree exhibition on
the relationship between the
17th- and 18th-century custom
of a traditional trip of Europe
of the ‘Grand Tour’ and the
contemporary landascape.
The Grand Tour was a long
journey in Europe undertaken
by the rich young people of the
European aristocracy destined to
perfect their knowledge of the
ancient world and the origins
of Western culture. It could last
from a few months to several
years and had Italy as its preferred
destination.
A bird’s eye view of Italian
and European landscapes and
architectures that Antonio
Brandimarte took as elements
and united them in imaginary
panoramas.
Uno Sguardo dall’alto: la mappa e il
viaggio
Degree Show, Florence, 2017
3 artworks:
oil on canvas;
200 x 160 cm each,
2016-2017Senza titolo (Tour) Oil on canvas, 200x160 cm, 2016
ANTONIO BRANDIMARTE antoniobrandimarte@gmail.com +39 340 450 2368 Instagram @antoniobrandimarte
In the previous page Senza titolo (St. Lawrence river in Brindisi) Oil on canvas, 200x160 cm, 2017 On this page and next Senza titolo (Scarabeo II) Oil on canvas, 200x160 cm, 2017
ANTONIO BRANDIMARTE antoniobrandimarte@gmail.com +39 340 450 2368 Instagram @antoniobrandimarte
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