FAMOUS ARTISTGiovanni Maranghi

Giovanni Maranghi’s pictorial idea could be defined as a ‘bridge’ between post-modernism and pop art, “more is better” one could say! Stratifications of different materials, one avant-garde experimentation, a sophisticated search for ‘textures’ combined with melancholy female figures, full of sensuality, represent the essence of Maranghi’s works. “a hyperdense painting, stratified and overloaded with traces, signs, memories of contemporary, in which the certainty of absolute existential vanity is hidden”. (Quaroni).

Female images are undoubtedly the characterizing theme of all the works, some of which ‘set’, sitting on the iconic ‘design’ by Alessandro Mendini. “an idea of universal cosmetics … a marginal definition of an ideal of a thriving woman e buxom, with plastically rounded hips and thighs”, with decorative elements “like the arabesque stories on the background, or like the inclusion of geometric inserts, sometimes spread over encaustic” (Quaroni), a clear example of experimentation on materials, which characterizes all of the artist’s work.