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My name is Luigi Mapelli (Mapo). I’ve attended the architecture school of Brera and then the Graphic Design School. I combine both my passions: photography and painting, and by walking along a difficult path, finally I can use art in a interdisciplinary way. In my works, real shapes in photo shoots acquire a dreamlike dimension through a clever use of oil and tempera painting. The careful study of photographic cut, the technique of amanuenses and the use of wide empty spaces; skies, snowed lands, and walls. The real protagonist of most part of my work, allows me to reach an armonic equilibrium of shape and colours. My painting is a compendium of disciplines practiced in the past.

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Featuring: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Thomas Buildmore, Deborah Claxton, Sybil Gibson, Richard Hambleton, Kosbe, David Larson, Mark Mastroianni, Margaret Morrison, NoseGo, Kenji Nakayama, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, stikman, Jeremy Szopinski, Francesco Tumbiolo, Jo Ellen Van Ouwerkerk, Cristina Vergano, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Andy Warhol

Sur-Real
January 4 – February 22, 2014
Woodward Gallery
133 Eldridge Street
New York City
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My work is a series of relations, between the day-by-day life, my own memories, history, and irony. In the works, the audience is brought through a world where obscene and the impure are put on display,arranged in a paradoxical and surreal make-believe world.

Usually everything is installed together, combining different medias, such as painting, graphic printing, and drawings. My work is based on my gut instinct and whatever I feel like doing in the present moment. Therefore none of my work is planned beforehand, only loose ideas, that if the right combination of circumstances occur, are put together into a new piece.

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