Lofilo’s world is a sequence of fabulous images which threaten the surrounding reality and posit a new dimension. The dimension is that of play, where all pictorial tools are permitted, where the eternal experimentation transforms dreams into dancing pictures, into faintly sketched faces. This is partly a result of the use of many different materials, evading our immediate perception but materialising in continual plays of light and colour.
In their simplicity, Lofilo’s works represent a prelude to the continual evolution of the young artist, committed to the creation of a hyper-reality based on total freedom, where human values prevail over pictorial techniques. Effectively, Lofilo decided to take an active part in the project promoted by Gregorio Mancino, creator of “Movimentart”, at the prison of Bassone in Como, to emphasise the importance of art at the service of the community and contemporarily woven into the social fabric, transcending all material aspects.
Lofilo’s is a message of great hope; in the spasmodic search for new media and recycled materials he celebrates the lightness and joy of life, in the hope of winning over a space free from all prejudice in which the vivid images are associated with the positive aspects of human existence.
For the artist everything can be transformed, so that the discarded coffee sacks are masked as phantoms, the cardboard faces of dolls are camouflaged by brushstokes and bright colours, acorns become elves or warriors on an improvised battleground, pieces of iron become musical instruments; imagination transits tireless and multi-faceted through Lofilo’s canvases.
Dating to 2004 is his first show, set up in the Bianca Maria Rizzi gallery, where figurative and abstract works alternate, highlighting Lofilo’s conception of colour which appears to take over the principles of Goethe, giving an absolute importance to chromatic assonance and dissonance. Colour becomes a vital symbol, unique and crucial in the painting-sculpture of the artist.

Sabiana Paoli

 

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