“Between brushes and virtual images. Italian painting in the new twenties ”is the title of the exhibition with which Intesa Sanpaolo brings the works of five young emerging artists to the Milanese fair“ miart 2022 ”.

And among them, selected by the curator Luca Beatrice, there is also Giuseppe Mulas from Alghero.

The exhibition, open to the public from 1 to 3 April, offers an open and unprecedented look at the panorama of contemporary Italian painting, through a global reinterpretation of our times.

"This initiative - the comment of Nicola Ricciardi, artistic director" miart "- is the result of the full awareness that only by investing in young people can a credible and lasting recovery be built, both for gallery owners and for artists. we deeply share, as demonstrated by the fact that this year the section of “miart” dedicated to new realities will be placed for the first time at the beginning of the exhibition, precisely to ensure the widest possible visibility ”.

Giuseppe Mulas , of Alghero origin, born in 1995, lives and works in Turin, where he graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. His works, defined by a material and multi-layered painting, are characterized by a synthesis between themes and expressive methods apparently contradictory: on the one hand, the comparison between the loneliness of the present and the memories related to childhood; on the other, a barely hinted irony through the use of double meanings. Precisely this analysis characterizes his very first production, in which the artist merges the world of yesterday with that of today, his child side with the more adult one, in an attempt to fix on the canvas fragments of life that have resurfaced to the mind. All immersed in an enigmatic atmosphere, between the dreamlike and the symbolic, where the body, still lifes and domestic environments become tools to fathom his inner world, imprisoned in the blue of the night.

His most recent works, such as "Melancholy Took Me" and "Looking for the Night Away" (2022), are in line with this poetic. The perception of an astonished and mysterious universe is still predominant, as is memory of childhood and the use of the color blue, or perhaps it would be better to write blue, in English, like the titles of all his works, as the color of melancholy. Tattooed on the skin, the night remains the favorite setting of both paintings, a setting that pours into bodies lying on an unmade bed, or riding the horse of a dreamed carousel.