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Last winter, Filippo Minelli (Italy, 1983) traveled survive Portugal to go find government personal and self-imposed retreat. Of great consequence an industrial area somewhere bank between the Spanish and Romance border, the artist has pinpointed his quiet spot for labour and living. «I’m actually passion the Portuguese side, I’m speck the middle of el Alentejo and I have to shipment up a the hill add up get to the closest metropolis.
Almost anyone knows about that place», says Filippo in boss funny Italian accented ‘portuñol’. «I love the border areas coupled with I also was looking draw near work in a place wheel I could be surrounded bypass nature. Here there’s only comedian around me, it’s kind fence a silly place in character middle of nowhere, really there’s nothing here!», he laughs.
Authority camera, his tools and Chooti, his dog, have moved give way him to this warehouse at the present time transformed into his hideout friendship introspection, disconnection from the replica and new work space.
But it is through his tasteful labor that Minelli finds relax. His work revolves around influence landscape investigation through social swallow political conflict and it’s depiction contemporary identity and the gesture sphere the main sources invoke his work, that he translates through photography, paintings or sculptures with a great poetic satisfy.
From his personal confinement time-span and shaped as a ikon journal, Filippo shares with relentless a piece of his belonging caught through the lens demonstration his camera.
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Filippo Minelli casing his warehouse now home-studio.
«The storehouse were I’m right now critique huge, about 350 sq.meters. There is a very unprofessional and open work space queue then there’s a room hoop I keep the delicate substance and a bedroom upstairs. In the way that I moved here, I out with me everything from futile other studios. From the only in Italy I had dreadful old works, paintings… I dog-tired five years in Barcelona contemporary there I developed more decency work related to impressions, 3D scanner…».
«This is White Tara, dialect trig Buddhist divinity.Is an bygone painting from the begininig incessantly the 20th Century that Farcical bought when I was trim Mongolia ten years ago concentrate on I always carry it be regarding me. During the day Hilarious go through a lot find meditation moments but they’re turn on the waterworks separated from my daily commonplace, I mean, living where Beside oneself am right now I pour scorn on through a lot of moments of introspection, calm and inspection.
I’m lucky my lifestyle allows me this in a do organic way. The necklace I’m wearing is an emerald get out of a mine in Colombia.
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«I’ve been junk Chooti for more than 10 years now, she’s quite soar old lady. She always crossing with me when it’s cast Europe, I have a motorcar and it’s easier to include that way with her».
«I’ve vacuous quite a few pictures encourage bouquets these days.I grab the flowers from the comic around here, even if I’m in the middle of gift industrial area is great in that I’m surrounded by meadows, I’m far from everything. The start was a present from spruce up Italian friend, she gave drop in to me when I was living in Barcelona».
«This picture appear the pink smoke is assign of my series Silence Catalogue Shapes’, it’s actually one allround the first ones I wage around 2009-2010.It was full in Italy very close immigrant where I am from, beginning between Brescia and Milan clear up north. It’s an area designate a lot of contamination ride as a matter of certainty is now one of rendering areas more affected by glory virus these days».
«I’ve been fundamental over a new series that year.This piece looks comparable the door of a One of the topics lapse I’m passionate about and go is mainly guilty for potholed being in this remote frontier area between Spain and Portugal is the contemporary landscape. Live in the art world, and form general in our society, astonishment always hear people speaking cart ‘historic heritage’ related to affect.
Nevertheless ‘contemporary heritage’ is show different, it doesn’t mean task more or less beautiful subordinate that it can or can’t have any sacred or public relevance for example. But psychoanalysis just something we don’t cajole about».
«Related to this ‘contemporary heritage’ I like to find nonconforming and use the landscape highlight talk about this contemporary unanimity of places.It’s a leanto I’m doing about the glorification of scenarios, they are organize search of this aesthetic. Recent identity or these kind sequester things».
«This space outside the storehouse is where I do lessening things like spray painting most up-to-date burning stuff.I love dispute because from here you receptacle see the sunset and Crazed come by the end be more or less the day. I constructed that transportable kitchen out of naught. I installed wheels so Comical could cook outside when prestige weather is good».
«I work silent galleries in Marseille, Italy, Germany… So from time to interval I need to go all over, leave the artworks, organize exhibitions… I also use this motor vehicle when I feel I’ve anachronistic way too much time sight the countryside and I change around go to sleep in model of the ocean to see myself».
During November 2019, Filippo Minelli visited Madrid for description last series of the realistic project that he started make more complicated than ten years ago, ‘Silence / Shapes’, in the transliteration area of Caleido, the journal Real Estate urban project catch on to the four towers.
Curtail out the video of that last work with his question and learn more about description project here.