series MILANO 

On the journey to Milano Italy, passing through Brianza into Stazione Centrale, I was struck by the typically mechanistic factory architecture of the last century. Added to this were the elegant skyscrapers which had been erected in recent years. An amalgamation of mechanical and digital buildings as testimonials of their time, which inspired the creation of the series MILANO.

The series MILANO shows the fusion of rationalism and irrationalism, of analog industrialism and virtual digitalism, of linear logic dissolving into illusion.
These are forms that also, in part, reference the Memphis idea—the playful, liberated from the logic and corset of Modernism. The color schemes, at times fluorescent and intrusive, then again industrially sober, emphasize these contrasts.
The history of Novecento and the promising beginning of Postmodernism is caught up -kidnapped - by commercial marketing.
The names recall industrial core zones and train stations as the most important trade hubs of Milano's past.

These works are hand painted with acrylic paint on paper.

Entire series in acrylic on paper, size 50/64 cm.