Leonida De Filippi has been working for many years on the concept of the media icon, pictorially reproducing news images, family photos or portraits, manually recreating the individual pixels, almost always in black and white, all with extreme stylization and strong formal elegance, which openly refer to the atmosphere of the early Pop age. For Galleria Vik Milano, the artist has created an entire environment with his latest series of works, all focused on the theme of circularity.
Leonida De Filippi
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In fact the protagonists of the room are paintings that, having overcome all figurative needs, concentrate on the symbol of the circle, reducing the iconography to the essential and thus arriving at abstraction. The circles, depicted in flat colours bright and strongly contrasted, seem to capture the viewer's gaze towards their interior, in a spiral movement of great formal impact, which recall optical illusions and advertising graphics of the seventies. In this way, the user of the work is invaded by a sense of j oyous estrangement from reality and brought from the harmony of the forms to a sense of inner concentration.
Leonida De Filippi was born in Milan in 1969, where he lives and works. He has exhibited all over the world, from Paris, Lugano and London, to China and South Korea. Among the museums that have hosted his works are: the PAC in Milan, the Mart Museum of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany and the Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa. In 2017 he participated in the Wuhan Festival of Arts in China with a travelling project that saw the installation of his circular paintings around the city and the involvement of the city's inhabitants.