Andrea Carisi - Anna Magnani

The work draws on a pop aesthetic in its use of famous or mass-produced images. Pop Art emerged in the United States in the second half of the 20th century as a result of artists' interest in and critique of the contemporary "consumer society." All expressions of Pop Art presuppose a sort of double bond with the world of consumerism and mass media. In some ways, Andrea Carisi's artistic production can be considered a Pop aesthetic, with its use of contemporary icons and famous faces from film and entertainment.

Andrea Carisi's image is iconic, it invades the surface of the painting, occupying the entire composition. But this artist's reflection on the massified icon departs significantly from the conceptual principles of Pop Art. Carisi isn't interested in a critique of consumerism, or the value of art in the age of mass-produced techniques. For Carisi, the pop icon has a purely aesthetic value. And it is in this direction that the painter's artistic language pushes. The famous face becomes a pretext, and its form, sculpturally captured by the painter, merges into an elegant composition of saturated colors.

Andrea Carisi (Forlì, 1934). Painter, graphic designer, and set designer. Since 1959, he has held 30 solo exhibitions in various cities and participated in approximately 300 regional, national, and international exhibitions, receiving mentions, awards, and recognition. He has created large murals on the walls of houses in S. Vito Lo Capo, S. Caterina di Villarmosa, Balestrate Caccamo, Trappeto, and Ustica. He has created approximately 20 sets for theater and international folk performances with directors Giuseppe Di Martino, Andrea Camilleri, Pino Passalacqua, and Michele Guardì. His painting is always situated within the realm of realism, with its distinctive lyrical tone, linked to the rhythms of the poetics of memory in a narrative that is always clear and intelligent.

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