Andrea Renzini, born on 13th September, 1963, graduated from the “Accademia di Belle Arti” di Bologna in 1987, the city where he still works and lives.

He began his artistic career in the early eighties, introducing himself onto the scene with the publication of unusual comic strips for the magazine ‘Frigidaire’ (1983 – 1986). He followed with a collaboration for the fashion review ‘Vanity’ (1987 – 1988). Only in 1990 did he decide to dedicate himself exclusively to painting. In the same year he exhibited his work in Corrado Levi’s studio in Milan and at Loretta Cristofori’s gallery in Bologna.

 

The evolution of his work has gone through many stages of growth and development, and can be divided into different, though correlated and consequential, fields of interest, each one characterised by a separate modus operandi. So the stylistic code becomes, in his work, his medium and not his aim, necessary in order to cross the contemporary and understand its differing languages.

Renzini looks more like a nomad in an age of media, who over time has acquired and mastered traditional and figurative language and modern media techniques, reusing new technological devices by hand. Renzini’s subjects are, basically, the main human archetypes; the traditional iconic figures like the foetus and its rebirth, the bullfighter or the alter ego lift-boy. The space-temporal question concerning simultaneity of events, the fragmentation of historical linearity and the way in which they achieve a cerebral consciousness is present in many of his works.

 

His artistic methodology began with the theatrical use of figurative painting (TAURORENZINIMACHIA 1984), photography and self-referential performance (LIFT 1997). Going from an internet aided installation in the Moroccan desert designed to move borders between space and phenomena(MEDINA AMNIOTIC SUITE 1999), he now rereads pure chromatic abstractions by reusing discarded photographic material saturated by light (FILM 2003-YCMD MAP 2004). He has attended several expositions in Italy and abroad. He has taken care of the graphics of many magazine covers and of important events posters.