Skiri

SKIRI - ANDREA ANTONIO SCHIRINIZI Milan, 1979

Andrea Schirinzi, known as 'Skiri', is an artist from Milan, born in 1979. His works seduce and captivate the viewers’ attention. The main subjects emerge from a colorful pattern of images created through unique, strange, and familiar juxtapositions. They are icons of contemporary culture, characters from the world of fashion, television series, and the comic universe. Present in the visual and personal imagination of both the artist and the audience, his works evoke immediate recognition, interrupted by the unexpected dialogue that these figures engage in with each other. The artist decontextualizes them, constructing a scene and playing with them. The observer struggles to find an escape point, feeling disoriented yet captivated by the backgrounds reminiscent of 70s and 80s advertisements for brands that our eyes are accustomed to recognizing in other contexts. The artist's stylistic approach operates on two levels: from the work of juxtaposition and assemblage of images, he moves to painting. Through an "action painting" process, the surfaces of his paintings are further worked upon, with aesthetically integrated writings that belong to the iconography of Street Art, offering the viewer another visual plane. The result is, works that are immediately comprehensible yet also unsettling, with humorous and provocative traits. The emotional impact is found in the contrasts: the same artwork can evoke both smiles and uneasiness. The chosen images become metaphors for a contemporaneity where advertising and entertainment dominate the absent gaze of the viewer, who is instead "awakened" by sudden changes of direction when faced with the artist's works. Skiri's world is the fascinating decontextualization and re-elaboration of what we thought we knew, yet it always appears new, leaving room for reflection and questions. - Skiri Official.