Boccanera Gallery presents The monumental ordinary, the new solo exhibition by the Trentino artist Andrea Fontanari (Trento, 1996) from 5 March to 11 May 2024 at the Boccanera Gallery headquarters in Trento.

His production is characterized by the monumentalization of the ordinary. The subjects and objects represented are taken from the artist's daily life and that of others and are then brought back to the canvas, spectacularized and ennobled as absolute protagonists of the scene.

From a pictorial point of view, Fontanari prefers an energetic and vital style, aimed at visually enhancing most of the compositional elements, while the intersection of the brushstrokes, often vigorous, contributes to constructing the figures plastically.

The artist's pictorial-figurative research reveals a visual vivacity, born from the intention of capturing every curious facet of the ordinary. This approach to the daily life of Fontanari wants to underline how we usually take for granted, unconsciously, the real intrinsic essence of the things that surround us, inhabit our world and make it potentially an immense source of stimuli, joy and hope.

The layout of the exhibition area is characterised by the juxtaposition of large paintings on canvas that form semi-enclosed architectures that interact with the environment, which are walkable and usable from different points of view. These spaces, created by the works themselves that act as walls, house works of small format, with the intention of making the viewer understand how much the artist feels comfortable in expressing himself pictorially, without being conditioned by the size of the canvas. 

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