Antonio Zuiani

 Antonio Zuiani is an Italian visual artist from Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, born in Gorizia.

“The roots of his inspiration come from different time frames and different aesthetics:

from Surrealism to Neofuturism, from Decadentism to Avant-garde,from Brutalism to Parametric, from Analog to Digital.

His research concern light design, trough drawing, painting, sculpting and photography; the experience as light designer in architecture studios, deeply influence his production process where the artist predicts effect of light inside the artwork, creating a 3d perspective on a bi-di­mensional media.

The output is a scenery, an aesthetic landscape made of multiple atmospheres, moods and characters.

Inside this scenery the rules are made by the artist, he trasport the viewer inside his world, creating in the public a desire to play with the mind, to build their own story linked with the artwork.

Each drawing is a different chapter of the same book, a continuous slideshow of windows open on the same vision,  a parallel dimension with its own time and space”

Giulia Zorzella, writer for Artribune magazine

Technique “Oil Bas-Relief”

 Mixing a sculptural technique “bas-relief” and a painting technique “impasto” the artist has cre­ated a landscape of multiple layers of color in order to obtain high contrast shadows inside the canvas.

 Working with knife palettes make the process of working the painting being instinctive and natural, it enable to work on the depht of the color layer.

 Thanks to its thickness the artwork reveal its hidden face under an oblique lightsource, the contrast of colors and shapes create a vivid visual impact.

 The artist currently collaborate with ALCHIMIA radical movement created in 1977 by Alessandro Guerriero with Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Bruno e Giorgio Gregori, Michele De Lucchi, Andrea Branzi, UFO, Paola Navone, Daniela Puppa, Franco Raggi.