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NEPENTE - IN THE FLESH OF TIME-

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 30, 2009, 4:50 AM

Paintings and movies are artificial plants born from the seed of Vision one has in one's mind. The practical gesture of moving the brush upon the blank surface of canvas recalls that one of tattoing the pale skin of a dead body. Visions to me are so cruelly concrete that painting them has the same value of giving life to their spiritual flesh. Now the cyber space, the high definition technology, the virtual realities, the digital film-making, the 3D and 5.1 audiovisual experience, the web streaming are announcing the end of the “Multimedia Era” and the beginning of the “Multimedianic Age”. Therefore, even when I just paint or direct a movie, what I unleashed on the canvas or on the screen is nothing but the “imprinting” of these medianic visions which contain all the high definition realities of the Invisible. Visions mean listening to the images and watching the sound. Over the years I applied this concept to everything I managed to create in order to stay faithful to the source of my irrational and biological pulsions, since I never considered my art as a simple activity separated by my daily life. Many of my short movies, art videos and novels such as "The Rain Frames", "Endometria", "Amnihollow", "aVoid", "Body Locked" deal with the recurrent theme of the transmogrification of matter and of human body, often signifing the substantial ambiguity of being, where illusions, hallucinations and dreams are made of the same tissue of our so-called reality and sometime are able to unveil realms more concrete than our own world. In my new feature movie "NEPENTE"that will be premiered in the next weeks, I developed these themes linking them to the new existential crisis of human identity in the era of the social networks, forums, blogs and chat rooms where the massive proliferation of imaginary personalities has dramatically increased the fragmentation and the distortion of our Ego.

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Reading: Serge Brussolo
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THE SINOVIAL GAZE THE ART OF ALESSANDRO FANTINI

Fri Jan 16, 2009, 3:42 AM

Amazon.com Look Inside: [link]
Available also on Lulu storefront: [link]

Alessandro Fantini's imagination knows no bounds: his visions have their own story, their own world and their silent messages... a truly singular creation.
Jean Michel Jarre.

The Sinovial Gaze-The Art of Alessandro Fantini embodies the first attempt at gathering more than a decade of creative and hallucinative experiences lived by the “multimedianic” artist Alessandro Fantini in an unique visual ride along more than one hundred luxuriant color illustrations. The book depicts the progression of Fantini's quest for the medianic rendition of his most inner pulsions and visions. Since the early 90s, with the discovery of the oil painting and the surrealist concepts, his artworks higlight a turbulent tension towards the cinematic and narrative syntaxes that will soon led him to deal with shortmovies, novels, comics, videoart and music languages. The book is structured into three sections which explore chronologically the pictorial and graphic dimensions of his visionary craftmanship.

Among the featured artworks there are the David Lynch's portrait displayed at the London Brick Lane Gallery, the erotic oil on wood board "O.B.E" featured in the Fantini's selfportrait printed on the Jean Michel Jarre's AERO album booklet, the celebrative painting of the Jarre's "Oxygene" 30th anniversary, and the tribute to Stanley Kubrick personally donated to his wife Christiane Kubrick. Comments and notes by the artist himself, Jean Michel Jarre, Charles de Lauzirika, Claudio Castellini, Lorenzo Fantini.

“Alessandro’s devotion to oil and canvas has rewarded us we with enough medianic meditations on the nature of the human mind to keep us transfixed for many years to come. His discipline and persistence from early childhood through his teens and now into his adulthood has taken the viewer on an incredible journey through an isolated landscape that invites dialogue, challenges preconceptions of existence, and teases us with sexual imagery that writhes through both foreground and background”. Lorenzo Fantini – excerpt from the foreword

Afan's Lulu storefront: [link]
Alessandro Fantini's paintings
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Alessandro Fantini's graphic art
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Alessandro Fantini's miscellanea
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AFAN ATHANOR: Alessandro Fantini's art blog [link]
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Third place in the Blade Runner Art contest

Tue Jul 15, 2008, 1:33 AM

The Alessandro Fantini's painting "Memories of dreams" dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner is among the winners of the ART category of Blade Runner contest "Inspiring the Future" over at [link]

Alessandro Fantini's paintings
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Alessandro Fantini's graphic art
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Il Varco Semilunare - AFAN's graphic art book

Wed Jun 18, 2008, 1:12 AM

Il Varco Semilunare - The Semilunar Passage

Alessandro Fantini releases his first art book devoted to documenting 15 years of graphic enquiries and preliminary medianic sketches, flamboyant apparently illustrative pencil and black ink drawings and portraits spreaded over 130 pages with one hundred black and white plates. Commentaries, poems and memories by the author himself support this intense journey through the AFAN's ambiguous and everlasting creative anamnesis. Available at [link] in the italian language soft-cover edition.

L'arte multimedianica non ha nulla di paranormale all'infuori del fatto che il "medium" nel caso di Alessandro Fantini è rappresentato da un foglio e da una mano armata di penne e matite schierate in assetto di guerra contro le piazzeforti della realtà e delle convenzioni figurative. Con questo anti-diario in versi, visioni, segni e di-segni, Alessandro Fantini ripercorre quindici anni di febbrile ed intenso lavorio artistico, concedendo per la prima volta al lettore di sporgersi oltre la soglia del suo studio e, passando in rassegna studi, bozzetti, ritratti e bizzarrie oniriche, di provare quasi la sensazione di trovarsi di fronte alla mano che assale i fogli per richiamarli all'enigmatica vita dell'opera d'arte. La versione a copertina morbida è reperibile su [link]

Alessandro Fantini's paintings
[link]
Alessandro Fantini's graphic art
[link]
Alessandro Fantini's miscellanea
[link]
AFAN ATHANOR: Alessandro Fantini's art blog [link]
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aVoid

Thu May 22, 2008, 5:56 AM

The Alessandro Fantini's video art "aVoid" has been selected for the first phase of the "I've Seen Films" 2008 international film contest promoted and directed by Rutger Hauer. More news to come very soon.
I've Seen Films official website [link]

Alessandro Fantini aVoid 2007