Nico Mingozzi. Unbelievable Monsters

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Raffaella De Chirico Contemporary Art presents the exhibition of Nico Mingozzi "Unbelievable Monsters". The artist works on original photographic prints of the early years of the last century, literally appropriating, fagocitandole and distorting the images and message. The show's title refers to a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, a story like that on the road in which the character narrator is a former model deprived of much of the face by a rifle shot. Upset by the event, is through its new look, abhorrent to the eye, that the protagonist changes the perception of the image of herself, others and the enjoyment of others of his appearance. Similarly, the characters of the work of Nico Mingozzi become unbelievable monsters in the sense of incredible, or not credible in their being terribly austere first, monstrous and after the intervention of the artist. Mingozzi strongly alters the identity of the characters of the photographs, it upsets the austerity makes them brutes, bestial but present them back to themselves. Mingozzi gives them a life and a new reality, a kind of pagan god that decides its fate and rebirth. There are several techniques through which Nico Mingozzi develops the work and each of them, although the result of an obsessive gesture, primordial and bulimic, well interpret the intentions of the artist omniscient / omnipotent and tools are carefully chosen so that surgical emerge new stories , those secret, nocturnal, incestuous, to keep hidden from the common morality. Through the fragmentation of photo printing, Mingozzi divides families, couples and then put them together sometimes through the staples of the stapler, almost coarse stitches closing of scars no longer curable. Other times binds them together with wire ropes paintings that seem, in a comforting and painful bondage, mechanisms of human facts of victims and perpetrators within the same nucleus. Other times Mingozzi uses the male sexual organ to create a link between the protagonists of the photographs, or the bowels discoveries and unrolled. The artist is also developing a focus on faces, deturpandoli by engraving, graffiandoli, scarnificandoli. The eyes are multiplied, scream or beg the viewer to "look beyond" the stereotype. The mouths toothed vaginas become those of you occupied Sigmund Freud, whose legends psychoanalyst was particularly relevant to his theories of castration anxiety. Showcasing dozens of small format prints and a large work from the development of a scan of a photograph reworked by the artist and then applied on the panel.

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