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Paul Flowers "Ecce Homo" Allende Centre in La Spezia




CENTER SALVADOR ALLENDE
Paul FLOWERS
"ECCE HOMO" by Mara
BORZONE
Centre Salvador Allende - The Spezia
4 to 26 March 2011


An artist, if that is, capture the signals from the outside world, and reworks them. In any case, they anticipate, as in Paul Flowers of this exhibition, conceived in very difficult times, but recent substantially relaxed, and opened during one of the most complex crisis that the Mediterranean has ever seen. The iron men of flowers, giant iron men, much less graceful and dynamic character of comics, evoke the mummies, wrapped in bandages that prevent the identification of metal, but the Warriors Crusaders in their armor. The recent, sad fate of some of the mummies in the Cairo Museum, or the consequences of the Crusades, to be reinterpreted in all key today, are only two possible premonitions of flowers, or examples of his Weltanschauung, a world view independent, peaceful, detached, thoughtful and without rhetoric. Ecce homo is not merely the great iron men: a series of stelae from the future celebrates other archetypes of warrior, or samurai lunigianesi Iron Age, even a warrior, cyborgs do not exist. Science fiction, or rather, his characters are the language used by Flowers in Ecce homo, the lure of technology is the basic idea, the title is the sentence of Pontius Pilate, with all its overtones. For the metallic cyborg came after a long experimentation with materials, which began with the painting material and continued with fish / air wire into small glass and metal display cases, filled with transparent silicone. The appearance of translucent silicone with attractive and repulsive, in contrast with the glow of brushed iron hand, suggests future technologies, and advanced at the same time, patched, worn and obsolete, reduced to offerings of a world to come. In the past there were born warriors, dirty black grease as coming from another galaxy, glittering and frowning, to bring out the metallic sheen, Flowers
has put them on a cement floor, which absorbs all light and in turn, evokes
degraded urban landscapes. The search then moves Flowers
in different areas, the ecology, which is also the style and choice of life, civic consciousness - talk politics in the strict sense is an understatement - al futuro, non facile, non gradevole, non rassicurante, alla religiosità, poiché di idoli si tratta. Caratteristiche comuni sono la manualità e la cura nell’esecuzione, mai troppo diligente, tuttavia riscontrabile nelle grandi opere come nei dettagli, nelle saldature come nei colpi di lima, nel progetto dell’installazione; Fiorellini ne è il regista, i replicanti metallici sull’attenti possono ricordare i guerrieri dell’esercito di Xian, ma sono allo sbando.
Paolo Fiorellini è nato a Sarzana (La Spezia) nel 1961, dove vive e lavora in un ex
biscottificio. Nel 1985 ha frequentato l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara.
Inizialmente il suo lavoro artistico è stato caratterizzato from a language between the figurative expression
; the nineties, his painting has landed a gesture
more informal and full of matter, then he dedicated himself to
testing of materials, including silicon, which has often included natural elements (flowers, grass or fish). Versatile visual artist, ranging from painting, sculpture, assemblage and performance, with results that located between the Trans and the latest research object.

Personal: Paul Flowers, Asst to the Cult. Lebanon, Ferrara, The Room,
Pontremoli (MS) '91, Copy, Copy, Mimesis, Gall. The Sieve, Sarzana '93; Open for holidays,
Portovenere (Sp) ' 96; Paul Flowers, Map Café, Sp; Hanah, Gall. Citifin, Torino '98, Be, Gall. Tornabuoni, Pietrasanta Art and Pienza, Pienza '01, Paul Flowers, Space Gaeta, Black Helke, Brescia '02, postal station, Gall. Cont Cidac Arts, Brescia '06, Paul Flowers, House of Art S. Lorenzo, Artimino (Prato), 6 floor, Art Hotel Shelley, Lerici (SP), synthetic ecstasy, Gall. Axa, Sp '08.
Collective: Review of Image Languages \u200b\u200bYoung, C. Allende (Sp) 90; The
Calandriniana, Sarzana '91, Ensemble d'Art, st. Art Tomaino, Sarzana (Sp) 94;
Parade Copyright Matrix, Montecatini Terme / Fiera di Bologna; Bottega d’arte
Tomaino, Gall. Il Setaccio, Sarzana; Calendiluna, Carrara ‘95; Calandriniana 95,
Sarzana; Notte al parco, Ensemble d'art, Carrara ‘95; Opera aperta, Gall.
Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi; Aria, D'ars, Milano ‘96; Cronache di bottega, Gall. 9
Colonne, Bologna, Ferrara, City Bank, Milano; Artheniana, Laboratorio di arte e
satira, Lerici (Sp); Viva Verdi, Pittura d'opera, C. Allende, Sp.1997; Provocazione,
C. Allende, Sp.; Liberati dalla paura, D'ars, Milano, ‘98; Vanitas Vanitatum, Scuola
D'Arte Arthena, Lerici; Mestolo d’autore, Milano, Torino 2000; Viamare, Bagno
Tropicana, Fiumaretta (Sp) '98, '99, 2000, '01; Postojna Youth Biennial, Museum of Modern Art
, Gazoldo (Mn), from six to midnight, group exhibition, Studio
Modugno '02; Artedove, Pathways' s Fosdinovo contemporary art, installation,
Fosdinovo (Ms) 2000, '01, '02, '03; Collective, House studio Laura Ballestrazzi
architect, Genova '03, and the people of men, Cloister of St. Francesco Sarzana
'04; Expoarte 2006, Montichiari (BS) '06, landmark, 2007 Artist, Art Fair, Istanbul
, Indiana, Gall. Gnaccarini, Bologna, Gallery Night, Gall. St. d 'Arte
Eclektica, Pisa '07 Performances: Pure Opera, Gall. The Sieve, Sarzana, Unpacking and In Memory of Hiroshima, Fort. Firmafede, Sarzana '95, Tristan Tzara, Fluxloft, Sarzana 1996; The shadow of the sun, Sp

Title: Paul FLOWERS "ECCE HOMO"
at Centro "Salvador Allende" La Spezia, Viale Mazzini, 2
Duration: 4 to 26 March 2011
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 14.30-18.30, Sunday and Monday closed
Information: tel. 0187 29210 / centro.allende @ laspeziacultura.it
Press: Luca Della Torre, Federica Stellini - Press Office of the City
Spezia ufficiostampa@comune.sp.it