Reverie: Five paintings in acrylic on canvas, five enigmatic and dream-like imaginations

Reverie

Five paintings in acrylic on canvas, five enigmatic and dream-like imaginations

No Country
02' 21 video-collage
10/ 15  painting on post-card and flyers  10x15 cm 
Berlin (2015/16)
Paolo Bandinu








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No country,  Paolo Bandinu, ,2’21”.
The video tries to rebuild through visions from the world, a story, a trip, a path that leads us to a reflection upon the concept of the country. A country seen as planet earth, cities, universes – that calls into question the idea of borders. A thought pointing to the freedom of each individual human. In a time when the defnition of citizenship is in crisis, we increasingly feel the need to redefne the boundary between public and private spaces, within a dialogue between institutions and citizens. “From up here the Earth is beautiful , without borders or boundaries” Yuri Gagarin

No country,  Paolo Bandinu, ,2’21”.
“Attraverso il recupero di varie cartoline e volantini ho creato un video-collage.
Il lavoro cerca di ricostruire attraverso le visioni del mondo, una storia, un viaggio, un percorso che ci porta ad una riflessione sul concetto di paese.
Un paese visto come pianeta terra, città, universo in cui si cerca di mettere in discussione l’idea di confine.
Un pensiero che punta al concetto di libertà di ogni individuo .”
"Da quassù la Terra è bellissima, senza barriere né confini"  Yuri Gagarin

No Country

"IT IS MAYA, THE DECEIVING VEIL, WHICH WRAPS THE EYES OF MORTALS AND MAKES THEM SEE A WORLD OF WHICH NEITHER CAN BE SAID TO EXIST, NOR THAT IT DOES NOT EXIST; FOR IT RESEMBLES A DREAM, RESEMBLES THE REFLECTION OF THE SUN ON THE SAND, WHICH THE PILGRIM FROM AFAR MISTAKES FOR WATER".

ILLUSION, APPEARANCE, IMAGINATION. MAYA'S VEIL SEEKS TO SHED LIGHT ON THE MENTAL PATTERNS THAT TRAP THE INDIVIDUAL IN HIS MICROCOSM, BLURRING HIS VISION, LOST IN THE DUALISM OF "THE THING AS IT APPEARS" AND "THE THING ITSELF".

PICTORIAL STORIES BY PAOLO BANDINU
MUSIC AND  PRODUCTION ANDREA PILLONI
COLOR GRADING NICOLA GARAU
CONSULTANCY MARTA ILARDI 
AUDIO MASTERING MIKE ZAFFA

il Velo di Maya 

Title: Die Wand VI
Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm
Year : 2019
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Berlin


Title: Die Wand VI

tit: wall 
Tec.: acrylic on canvas
dim.:120 x 80 cm
2015

Die Wand I

Among the different experimentations that brought me to create animations that want to go beyond the screen I shot a video in an abandoned building near the suburbs of Florence (Italy).
That building was a mechanical laboratory with an apartment  at the side, I found there the inspiration for a short story about mysterious presences with the title Nascosti dalle Apparenze.
Looking around in this area I was fascinated from a sort of a veil of mystery that the thousand objects of the house create.
It was a place where people used to live and where every corner showed the tracks of a gone past stopped in time. I used that objects, like mirrors, chairs that had the signs of past, of time and brought to mind something disturbing. I tried to use that space like a canvas, carrying the painting to the walls, the doors, the windows of a real house.
Painting the walls and catching the scene with a camera I started the sequence of a story of two spirits that met, mixed together still they become a single being, than separated again with a feeling of fear.
The work aims to recreate the reunion of a person with the other self, looking for a existence that has positive as with the hug and negative as with the refuse results. An escape and a reunion to what we don't stop to know, the human nature and his unconscious. The man hidden from the appareances caused by the circumstances and corporality. 


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