DOMENICO GRENCI

Domenico Grenci (1981, Ardore, Italy). Lives and works in Bologna. His portraits are partly evocative and partly disenchanted. They have enigmatic and arrogant scents that evoke, at the same time, joy and restless pleasures. They are ethereal figures, inspiring muses and restless semblances of inextricable feelings.

In the Flowers series, each work is a unique piece and are created by inkjet printing on tracing paper and pictorial intervention with oil. Starting from his latest intimate research on still life and in particular on flowers, Grenci creates these works on dusting paper especially for the gallery, in a limited number. The main subject is the Iris flower in its moment of highest magnificence which, however, conceals its imminent decadence. As a divine messenger, Iris acts as a link between the ever-distant world of the gods and that of humanity. We can perceive, therefore, a profound meaning that investigates the relationship between people and nature, but above all one that connects human beings with life and the promise of hope.

The serie Mirror can be considered an integration of photography and painting. Images are created and constructed starting from printed or painted transparencies and then superimposed. These are inverted, becoming to all intents and purposes negatives which, in the darkroom, impress the photographic paper by contact. The result of this elaborate artifice gives us a work of art, a photograph, oriented towards the dimension of painting. The surface is therefore not a static element but a dynamic place, where the photographed subjects are exposed to a metamorphosis and transformed.