Massimo Mion. Sindoni - Fabric Portraits

Eleven portraits on fabric emerge from the surface through the light.
Sindoni - Fabric Portraits is the title of the installation designed by Massimo Mion which opens Friday, September 12 (at 18) to the Space Kanz in Venice. Entirely dedicated to the female contemporary, the project starts from the stories of women, draws on their personal experiences and returns wide visionedell'essere women in plots of signs, shapes and colors.
Street artist Venetian engaged in the research and application of the stencil, Mion opened his urban style in one of the most played in the history of art and experimenting with a new dialing location. Paintings, sketches, hand-cut cardstock, shapes, colors are spray applied across layers of fabric patiently cut and backlit. The faces of women who meet every day, friends, but also entertainment icons and film, and even pornstar turned on in succession, according to a term of variable lighting, choreography create unexpected and always different.
 
Light, time and surface
On display until September 28th between the bare brick walls of Space Kanz, a few steps from Campo San Giacomo dall'Orio, Sindoni is composed of eleven portraits, each with dimensions of 30 x 40 cm, carried out through the shades of white and black light reveals through the fabric.
Proposal under the patronage of the Province of Venice and built within a year, the installation is inspired by the meaning of the fabrics used to wrap the dead in antiquity, with the aim of giving a new identity to the creative process of the stencil. "The idea is to turn the concept of a stencil - says Massimo Mion- technique that I use for some years to produce the majority of my work. The stencil what you see is the paint that is allowed to pass through the hole etched into the surface of the card. In this case, however, what remains is the light that passes through the layered surface of the fabric. "

They are vintage undergarments of the fifties, a tablecloth of a wedding outfit, a pair of sheets from a hospital, the alternate media used in this installation. Fabrics used and worn out, belonged to women, which the author has tried and chosen to allocate them to accept the stories of other women. The route goes from sad faces in expressions absorbed and contemplative, or fairs and safe to arrive at provocative attitudes, emotions and feelings to tell innate feminine identity. A crescendo of expressions and faces captured from a photo shoot, deconstructed and then reassembled according to gradations and color contrasts that live under the light. An LED backlight system simulates the glow of a candle and reveals the face depicted in a sequence is not predictable, establishing a dialogue with the viewer always new, making only his experience of visiting.

Massimo Mion - Stencilism is a humanism
The path of Massimo Mion as part of street art and stencil in particular, revolves around the theme Stencilism is a Humanism, a play on words inspired by the work The existentialisme est un humanism of Jean-PaulSartre who is also a tribute to Banksy, one of the greatest living artists, and his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, titled Existencilism.
Since its land of origin, the Veneto, Mion is known throughout Italy. Three of his murals are located in Milan, in the Porta Garibaldi Station. I'm the Big Bad Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood-inspired, The Garden, where children play in harmony in a park and To The Canyon, dedicated to the final scene of the film Modern Times, while coloring the journey is at the station Greek Pirelli. Among the protagonists of the Urban contest of Rome 2012, was selected in two editions of the competition organized by Inail Painting the safety at work. For Venetonight (2012) promoted by Ca 'Foscari has made ??4 icons inspired by Andy Warhol Philippe Davenport. And 'winner of the 6th competition Murals in Lasino (Trento) and the art competition What's the sound of your (he) art? organized last year in Malcesine for Bluesfestival.

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