TINA PAROTTI  "Stelle" - 1996 - acrilico su tela 220x160 cm

International art collective
by Mariangela Maritato (*)

The artists, like the poets of whom P.B. Shelley spoke, “are mirrors of the gigantic shadows that the future throw on the present. Force which is not moved but it moves itself”. The evocative character of poetry manages to make clear the sense of the visual art much better than thousands of logical concepts. Art Intensive is present day poetry, in colours and images. It’s post-modern art, “union of narcissism and nihilism” (Al Gore) as  was  Pop Art. But it overtakes it and in due course it will find its definition. The simulation and virtual realities (from the artificial world created by the mass-media to the virtual reality) generate and inspire it. The consumerism society and its making a show of the products feed it. The “simulacri”, in the sense given to the term by Jean Baudrillard, that is the simulating signs lacking a real meaning, are its subjects.

The artists of the Art Intensive collective reflect the contemporaneity without being subjected to it. With irony, Antoh paints canvases which appear as the sublimation of the drive of the modern man. The speed, the stress, the consumerism which impose themselves through brands and labels in our unconsciousness. His informal style, made of stylized figures which seem to come out of the colour, distinguishes him from Massimiliano Robino who, child of the European New Pop, dwells on media icons. He emphasizes them. He immortalizes them on the canvas seizing their fleeting appearance.His figures are penetrated by thick, full-bodied colours with a style half way between the pop baroque and the neo impressionism of avant-garde. Whereas it is the consideration and the research of the colour which join Robino and Antoh, it is instead the central theme of the art of Midori McCabe. In this artist, the post modernism finds its unique expression through dyes once soft and delicate, or strong and aggressive. The fleeting lines of colour, the never defined forms which stand out from her canvases, reflect a “blurred”, confused and chaotic reality where the forces of the wild – as the seasons and the wind – find their own space of vent, master, seize and distort the present time. Which is, as Nietzsche said, the “very soon”.

 

 

Mariangela Maritato is a professional journalist and reporter for the art critic and economy online magazine Arslife.com

THE PAST: After having graduated at a language secondary school, in 2005 she graduated with honours in Sciences of communications, branch journalism, at Rome Lumsa University with an essay on History of international relations. In the same year she became a professional journalist. Her love of art got her to follow, with excellent results, courses of Modern and contemporary art history held by the art historian Marco Gallo. In 2008 she finished a master in radio television journalism in Milan under the supervision of Lamberto Sposini. She started writing in 2004 for Il Sole 24 ore (of which she’s still a co-operator) and for the French press agency France Presse. She worked with the Gazzetta del Sud, Affari Italiani, L’Opinione, Agenzia radicale and other publications.

THE PRESENT:  She organises exhibitions and art initiatives for spazio Symposium XXI (via stampa 8, Milan, Italy). Head of exhibitions for public bodies and art galleries. The last, “Dissacration”, collective exhibition, c/o spazio Symposium XXI (10th May – 11th June 2008). 
She writes for the magazine www.Arslife.com , directed by the critic and journalist Paolo Manazza, prominent name of the Corriere della Sera newspaper. For her he’s a master. 

She’s interviewed, amongst others, Julian Schnabel, Massimiliano Gioni, Robert Gligorov and Luca Pignatelli.

She takes care of, as critic and promoter, the emerging artistic group "Busy Art", created around the figure of the artist Antonio Mansueto and of which  Massimiliano Robino and Midori McCabe are also members.