"Whatever is prepared industrially or practical directly confronts the skills, the present and the limits of man and that is what interests me."
In his series CROSSAGE, the Italian artist Umberto Chiodi blurs the line between art and craft. He mixes collages, inlays, carvings and photos into an energetic visual lexicon. special emphasis is placed on his use of self-manufactured marble paper whose surface hides fascinating, diverse structures. Textures drawn with ink relate to modern traffic signs, but also to the ornaments in old fashioned wallpaper. With his series of works, Chiodi wants to contain the ongoing flood of images that we are exposed to in today's world. In artistic creation and thought, Chiodi does not claim reality, he works with the idea of visual information to be rich in cultural backgrounds and to make it visible. Finds from photos, magazine clippings and various papers turn to poetry of everyday life. As a result, enchanting images are created that seduce us and make us believe, at least for the moment, that the world has a wonderful face.
Umberto Chiodi was born in 1981 in Bentivoglio / Italy and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He lives and works in Milan.