FRANCESCO MERLETTI

“IN QUESTO IMPORTANTE ANNO CAVALLO”

 

Opening Reception: 10 November 2011, 6pm

Exhibitions: November 10 –December 20, 2011

 

In the last set of works titled “In questo importante anno cavallo”, Francesco Merletti proposes the same ambiguous female figure.

Always the same woman in different clothing, soft fur, sophisticated headgear, who interprets  different roles in each case.

The poses are forced, are "mise en scene", artificial, such as a preparation for something that will never happen.

“this important year” suggests a feeling of expectation, a desire to turn it  into   a "remarkable" destiny, immediately contradicted by the absurdity of a noun "horse", it seems a misprint, who shatter the chance to believe in the future.

watching our contemporaneousness the artist examining every single situation, and mixing art and theater he shows us through his work the common human frailty in a society increasingly fragile.

 

He was born in Brescia, Italy in 1966, and lives in Milan. His work was shown at MACAT Museo Arte Contemporanea Taverna CZ, at the Kuntlerhaus Graz, Austria;, and at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Cusco, Perù. He was selected for “Premio Durini” Museo della Permanente Milan, and “Premio Celeste” Museo Marino Marini,  Florence.