Lemeh42 (2004 – 2014)

Headline: Lemeh42 2004 – 2014
Authors / artists: Lemeh42
Texts: Eleanor Frattarolo
Language: Italian, English
Translations: Sara Vivenzio
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-88-6057-263-9
Size: cm 16,5×24
Binding: grecata brossura and fresata
Pages: 64
Price: € 30.00

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There is a reason for the design which is the reason for the desire to discover. You look for a home in your subject, writes John Berger. The dictatorship of the ideology of the zeroing of the hand, of the drawing, of painting, of sculpture, it is simply unknown to the artists of the last generations who mix manual skills and technology, and they paint and draw without guilt derived from ideal connections with distant or close "avant-gardes" (from Berlin to China, from Paris to Iran at the Rimini Design Biennial). So Michele in 2010 start shooting videos by filming your own drawings, before digital, performed with the graphics tablet, then by hand with graphite and inks: an animated cinema, but new, which indirectly tells of how the expressive modalities of the past resurface reshaped by new looks and new utilities. It also happens in street-art, that reconnects the broken threads of the link between painting and the city; in public art, that takes the ancient motif in its own name and in its own hands, native to, of being of art; in site-specific processing, that make us understand how site-specific the works of Giotto and Niccolò dell’Arca were, by Michelangelo and Francesco Mochi, by Goya and Felice Giani, and of all the countless frescoes and modellers and scenographers who have modeled the faces of historic cities ... On this street, appears brand new and ancient Lemeh42, as it is, time ago, William Kentridge, or certain other designers who are also performers and photographers and street artists and videomakers and who film their own drawings or paintings: Karin Andersen ed Ericailcane, Elisa Laraia, Dacia Manto and Blu, Toccafondo, among the Italians ...
Taken from the text of Eleanor Frattarolo