Malpol - Mercedes

The work draws on a pop aesthetic in its use of famous or mass-produced images and their pictorial reworking. 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. On the one hand, the artwork is reduced to a mere consumer product, thanks to the use of advertising language in the works and their serial reproduction through mechanical processes. On the other hand, as in this case, the mass-produced images themselves become works of art, as a more genuine and truthful expression of the new society and thanks to the artist's recontextualization.

The work is part of a series in which Malpol seems to fully embrace the Pop aesthetic, reworking the subject as if it were a comic strip, thus elevating a serialized and mass-produced language to a work of art. This approach is very similar to that of Roy Liechtenstein, whom Malpol seems to draw inspiration from. Unlike Liechtenstein, Malpol doesn't reveal the grain of comic book illustration. Instead, he tends to create a work composed of elegant graphics, featuring clean lines and solid color fields.

Paolo Malossini, known professionally as Malpol, was born in Riva del Garda in 1951 and lives in the hamlet of Varone. His interest in painting began in the 1980s thanks to his association with the painters of the "Borgo di Calvola" and the "Casa degli artisti di Tenno." He then began his career as a self-taught artist. Since 2011, he has been a member of the "Amici dell'arte" group in Riva del Garda.

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