L U C I O V A L E R I O P I N I
ElleVuPi is fundamentally known as a photographer. For some time now, though, he's been finding photography too tight, and so, searching for new expressivenesses, he tries to cheat by going under a different appearance. In this search not of the new, but at least of the different, of the uncommon, to amaze rather than to be admired, photographer ElleVuPi uses, for this new artistic enterprise, various instruments and materials other than the camera. He presents himself as an artist willing to change.
Now he creates his images at the board under the banner of color and fantasy. ElleVuPi, approaching other expressive means, does not shoot any more and does not even paint (couldn't do it) but, to create images, he uses paste, brushes, watercolors. ElleVuPi "discovers" and utilizes the potentialities of COLLAGE. ElleVuPi builds his pictures working on cuttings of figures, of people, of landscapes and of architectures coming from photos or from reproductions of works by great masters of classic and contemporary painting.
The whole is composed starting with the organic union of fragments of images of diverse natures, antagonizing one another, which, deprived of their every former reference, are assembled in a final "mise-en-scène" so to try making them assume a new aestethical valency.
The certain mark of the photographic image or of a pictorial reproduction shatters under the scissor's work and then the uncertain outlines of the cuttings blend together in a fanciful path, they join to yield matches impossible in reality but possible, for example, in fantasy or in dreams.
Between certain and uncertain there is an illusory possible.
The pictures' leit-motiv is the representation of the female figure, subject ever changing in its appearance. Male figures appear very rarely. Sometimes children, angel and saints enter the stage. Sometimes the pictures, even though comprehensible, have hidden references and meanings.
ElleVuPi is often asked: "What does this mean?" and the answer is always the same: "I don't know, what do you see in it?".
For his cultural references, ElleVuPi makes use of painting models of Classic art, of Surrealism, of Pop-Art, of German Expressionism. He equally loves Rinascimental and Baroque art and authors like Leger, Mondrian, Magritte, Otto Dix, Vasily Kandinskij, Max Ernst, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Alex Katz, Antonio Donghi, Carlo Carrà, Savinio, Picasso, H.M. Davringhausen and Tamara de Lempicka.
You can contact ElleVuPi, i.e. Lucio Valerio Pini, at ellevupi@tiscalinet.it
ElleVuPi is looking for a publisher for his works.
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