MAX ! One-man show of the works of Max Papeschi,
Edited by Igor Zanti
Vernissage: Tuesday 24th February, 2010 - 18.00 - 20.00

The exhibition is open from February 25 to March 22, 2010
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Opening hours: Monday - Friday 9.00 - 16.00 (excluding holidays)

The Barbara Mahler Gallery is proud to present the new, one-man exhibition of the Italian artist Max Papeschi in its UBS gallery in Lugano.

Max Papeschi comes to digital-art after his experience as a director / author in the field of theater, television and film.
As a figurative artist's approach with the Art-World is a state of immediate success for both public and critics.
His pop-Scorrect Politically, cites the 'American Life and reveals its horrors in a manner ironically realistic. From Mickey Mouse to the Ronald McDonald warmonger Nazi cult icons lose their sympathy to become a collective nightmare.

The first love of Max Papeschi were not the canvases, brushes, chisels or photography, but the boards and the cameras of the TV.
Papeschi fact, he graduated, in the mid 90's to the prestigious school Paolo Grassi in Milan and began a career as a theater director and television. Many are its holdings in successful productions of the show environment contributes significantly to the formation of a highly personal aesthetic which finds outlet, almost by chance, a little more than a couple of two years ago, in a series of works, real visual aphorisms, conducted through the development of digital photography.

Although the artistic medium used by Papeschi proves to modernity, closely affected by the influences of culture collage, not so much nell'accezione typical of a certain artistic production typical of the years 60/70, as in those directly derived from the experience derived from Dada and Bauhaus.
The very strong influence of the poetics of Hanna Hoch and German Dada, mixed with obvious references to pop, allowing the identification of a useful key to the production of Max Papeschi.
The result of this mix of references and a job, without fear, you can define caustic, abrasive, characterized by strong content in a striking and ironic inexorable, the vices and virtues of contemporary society.
The cartoon characters, the universal symbol of reassurance and a perfect world, they lose their function to convey an 'investigation, not without its sociological implications, the present world, resulting in compositions where a refined taste for nonsense twists the traditional Cultural topoi we are used
Papeschi retrieves a certain social dimension of art clothing, metaphorically, the role of jester-understood as free and histrionic personality that can enable a critical approach towards the more established reality-and you grant, through the subtle weapon of irony, with the possibility of causing 's intent to solicit a reflection on the contemporary never boring.

The works of Max Papeschi will remain on display at the Galleria Barbara Mahler seda UBS in Lugano from 25 February to 22 March 2010.