Men Grooming Awards 2010

FRANCO FLAMIGNI

Mesticheria Casadei, C.so Diaz 57. 10/07/2010 - 23/07/2010

Artist Forlì, author of several landscapes, Franco Flamigni exhibited on this occasion at the Casadei Mesticheria a series of paintings on cosmic theme. His work reads an inspiration to the beauty of creation, a painting that ranges from abstract to concrete representations opposing the surrender of a great universe of natural earthly creatures. Thanks to a wide range of blue, blue, turquoise, sometimes lit by pleasing color contrasts, magnificent starry skies take shape and galactic nebulae. The colors, flat so arm onioso, light up in rapid brush strokes that go on to describe the heavenly stars, the real focal points of the representations.
In the foreground, a spectator of this beauty without end, but part of it, the earthly nature: birds, trees, butterflies, flowers. These living entities in the canvas, transfigured in the background galaxies, are shown in careful observation of the sky or, more significantly with an eye towards us, the true audience of these wonders of creation.

Denise Milani Black Yatch

LIDIA MIETTI

Mesticheria Casadei, C.so Diaz 57. 12/06/2010 - 25/06/2010

Una piccola galleria di ritratti di animali, familiari all'artista, resi con la pennellata precisa che solo l'utilizzo dell'acrilico consente e riproduzioni di fiori recisi, sospesi su fondi astratti molto luminosi, costituiscono il soggetto espositivo che Lidia Mietti ha scelto, all'interno del suo variegato repertorio artistico, di esporre nella vetrina della Mesticheria. Nelle sue opere la pittrice si avvale di diverse tecniche sia pittoriche (acrilico, olio, pastello, tempera e acquarello) sia scultoree (ceramica, raku). Il suo interesse è principalmente rivolto alla rappresentazione di oggetti di uso comune che tende ad astrarre dalla realtà e a collocare in ambientazioni different, full of symbols. From the first still lifes in which a spike lies abandoned on

a table, today's representations of flowers and portraits of various animals dear to her, the common reason yet, it is the attention to the poetry inherent in the small everyday things , poetry that the artist is able to represent with the delicacy and the gaiety of a young girl. And this is precisely the gift of Mietta: able to maintain, to the pictorial, a particular spontaneity. However, in his formative years not without the influence of professors of high prestige, among which we mention Verlicchi Francis, one of the great masters of the '900 Romagna.

To date, the artist has held several exhibitions, mainly personal and collective as a member of "Art and Environs" Bagnacavallo. Just the association is in fact the forge creative artist who has recently made several portraits of women representing women of color in traditional dress of some interest: paintings in which the emphasis is warm colors to emphasize the essence of those lands .