La maschera dell’eroe – Massimo Bramandi

From April 8 to May 22 the halls Underground of the Lu.C.C.A Center of Contemporary Art host the exhibition “La Maschera dell’eroe” (The Mask of the Hero), 18 paintings and an installation by Massimo Bramandi.

Maurizio Vanni wrote:
“Painting is one of the communicative possibilities that is a prerogative of the artist: a means of expression which enables the person who, besides being sensitive, creative, and technically prepared, manages to have a clear-minded familiarity with his own imagination, to express something that goes well beyond what is revealed.

For painters like Massimo Bramandi, posing the question of the imagination could mean casting doubt on the forms because of the way they are manifested: in his most recent works, Bramandi does not try to reduce the volumes to the world’s dimension, but sets out to transform the universe into a code appropriate for the reaches of the imagination.

His work unfolds in time just like its slow, inexorable flow: undulating, rapid, rhythmic, and, sometimes, dazzling, suffocating, alienating, and explosive. His figures are closed up in themselves, remote from the main action of the painting, a function almost always fulfilled by the color, which tends to accentuate its fantastic aspect. The kingdom of the imagination constitutes the ideal territory for the hero who, handed down to us through the recounting of myth, posits himself as an unexpected anchor of salvation from the pressure of an often unbearable daily reality.”