Mondi Lontanissimi (Far away worlds)
Andrès Avrè
Inauguration and opening of the exhibition: March 21, 2025
Andrés Avrés painting is like an apparition: a spot of colour that suddenly appears in some canvases, a ray of sunshine that captures, seduces and then, as if by magic, fades away, transforms, also taking on chromatically softer contours, almost a dark sign in the restlessness of a life, of his life.
There is nothing casual in his human and artistic path. Andrés simply let the emotions of the days, months, years settle in a melting pot of feelings that became colors.
The transformation of matter, precisely: the one that tormented even the great protagonists of twentieth-century Italian painting before him, to the point of making people speak of “poetry of matter”, as happened for example to Alberto Burri from Perugia.
Without necessarily wanting to refer to the learned quotes of an Umberto Eco, who, speaking of “aesthetics of transformation”, went as far as the most hidden meanders of Aristotelian “Poetics”.
In Andrés everything comes back and everything flows in this harmonious sequence of reds, oranges, ochres, alternating with the most unpredictable shades of gray, up to the darkness: as if from the sparks of dawn we arrive at the restlessness of the night.
The not too hidden metaphor of the mystery of life, for an artist who does not pursue – by his own definition – commercial success.
But who has already seduced colonies of admirers all over the world, starting from the Langa and arriving in America or the Americas, passing through Northern Europe up to Japan.
And (coincidentally, or look at the coincidence…) to these lands once harsh and now made more tame by economic well-being, Andrés dedicated years ago his first collection, Materialia, presented in Monforte d’Alba among vineyards and steep hills, in a triumph of colors that bloomed towards the sky of an artist who has made matter his light.
Andrès Avrè
Born in Turin in 1966, he is a prolific and energetic self-taught painter with a growing profile of solo and group exhibitions.
Initially he expressed himself through the language of comics and illustration.
After a period dedicated to the audiovisual he returned to informal painting, an environment in which he feels truly and authentically free.
His cultural background, his interests, his acquaintances such as theater, history and archaeology are reflected in his work which nevertheless has as its main cultural reference American abstract expressionism. His creative process is stimulated mainly by the transformation of matter, and arises from the obsession for the continuous flow of a series of elements, objects, people and the relationships between them.
