Moneyless – Fragmentations @ BC Gallery
BC Gallery Berlin is hosting “Fragmentations”, a series of new works by Italian artist Moneyless in his first solo show in Germany, on view through June 27th, 2015.
In his personal exhibition, the artist presents the deconstruction and transformation of a key element in his artwork, the circle, into “a dimension of pure movement by depriving it of its perfect form and replacing it with a more human and fleeting tension”. The change from static to dynamic resulting in a powerful sense of continuous motion and expansion creates an image of temporary and fragile wholeness, therefore challenging the viewer to find completeness in fragments of lines, colors and shapes.
About the artist
Born in Milan in 1980 and raised in Tuscany, Moneyless’ art is characterized by an investigation on the rawest elements of life and focuses on a process of continuous evolution. He certainly owes his graphical mark to the street, where he was born as an artist and where he grounded his roots in the ’90s graffiti/writing scene. “I wanted to undress the letters from the alphabetical presence” he says – then Teo started focusing on the pureness of the shape, the pregnancy of geometry in the fundamentals of life, gradually taking distance from walls and lettering – “My efforts then dropped the symbolic meaning of the letter”. His artistic research, relieved by the weight of a fixed form, made his style move towards a pure geometry onthology. Moneyless’ aesthetic seems to quote a Platonic vision where geometry is represented as the structure, the foundation upon which all nature is built. Fire, air, water and earth are the basic elements of existence and they come out from the multiplication of the main geometrical figure, the triangle: we’d better say division rather than multiplication, because it’s through subtraction that Moneyless looks into evolution.
A 6-Color Silkscreen Print by Moneyless was produced during the preparations for his solo show “Fragmentations”. Check details and available works.
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