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Mattotti’s First London Exhibition at Trichrome
Posted: December 8, 2011
For me, the Italian artist Lorenzo Mattotti, a guest earlier this year at a Comica Conversation with Dave McKean, is simply one of the most mesmerising visionaries both in and beyond comics today, so I am thrilled that the new London branch of the Trichrome Art Gallery is staging his first selling exhibition in London next week. La Stanza centres around a man, a woman and a room and a story of love purely illustrated in all its moods. Not only can you see and buy Mattotti’s small but intense original ink works, but there are also copies available of the little volume of La Stanza published by Tricromia Rome.
Trichrome’s press release explains further: “In these images apparently there is no story. No prologue, no epilogue. There are though intimate fragments and part of those sensations that only a couple can experience. There are waiting moments, the approach, the touch, the thought, the reflection, the doubt, the excitement. The love, the kiss. Lorenzo Mattotti expresses in an unconventional way those feelings in which every lover, “someone who loves”, can recognize him/her self. Tenderness, anger, sympathy, passion and suffering to find yourself in those shy and slow bodies, where the two lovers look at each other, touch each other, grazing and then hugging, in a perpetual minuet.”
La Stanza is opening on December 15th from 6pm and all are welcome to the private view but please rsvp by emailing: trichromelondon[at]gmail.com The show and it runs till January 6th 2012 at their premises at 965 Fulham Road, London SW6, not far from Putney Bridge station. Be sure to pay it a visit and luxuriate in Mattott’s sensuous illustrations.
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