In his works, Cristiano Tassinari combines a continuous work of experimentation on the media and artistic techniques with a strong and well - defined stylistic figure, in which abstract and realist painting, photography, objects, signs, sculptures alternate on the space of painting, giving life to practically perfect compositions, in an hybrid between different linguistic and expressive planes. In fact the artist has been working for years on the relationship between sign, colour, shape, memory, through a swirling accumulation of elements, as in a repeated overlapping of different geological layers.
Cristiano Tassinari
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In recent years, he has stylized and amplified his approach to artistic practice to the extreme, in an articulated and complex research, which tends to an ever greater stylization and a multiplication of visual elements in a single formal corpus. Here, then, the work itself no longer tends to a classic composition, but rather to a sort of horizontal and only apparently chaotic accumulation of visual suggestions, capable of activating in us associations of distant or removed ideas and visual memories. "I am interested," explains the artist, "in the dialectic between order and chaos that is established in the artistic work, combining different media, but also forms, colours, languages, that refer to completely different traditions and aesthetic areas." In this way, today, the complex and layered works of Cristiano Tassinari, between oil painting, drawings, photographs, sculptures and installations, speak to us of a formal universe in which even the objects of the street and everyday life, bodies, faces, the grids and abstract structures become materials of a single visual universe, which reproduce in a symbolic form the pitfalls, short circuits and contradictions of phenomenal reality.
Cristiano Tassinari was born in Forlì in 1980 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He lives and works in Berlin. Winner of the Italian Factory Prize for young Italian painting in 2006, and the Miche tti Prize in 2007, he has participated in numerous personal and collective exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad, especially in Germany and in particular Berlin, but also in non - European countries such as South Korea. In 2011 he was invited to participate in the Venice Biennial. His works are housed in various museums and public and private foundations, such as the Mar di Ravenna, the Michetti Foundation of Francavilla al Mare and the Pinacoteca Comunale di Forlì.