MBAG - Deep in your dreams

Work: Deep in your dreams. Collection: Custodi
“Custodi” is the title of MBAG's new collection, a series of works created in recent years that explores the deep relationship between humans and animals. An ancestral bond, made of coexistence, protection, and mutual recognition, that runs through the history of humanity and continues to define its most intimate identity.
If man has always been the guardian of the natural world, today more than ever he feels the need to reestablish an authentic connection with other species, often forgotten or relegated to the margins of a society dominated by artifice. The collection is born precisely from this need: to bring animals back to the center of the gaze, transforming them into symbolic and powerful presences within the domestic space, capable of transmitting an emotional frequency made of respect, empathy, and awareness.
The style draws on Pop Art, turning animals into genuine stars, making them symbols of beauty like Marilyn Monroe. Because society is now saturated with famous people, worldly images, and consumerist products, there are never enough authentic connections with the animal world.
The image is not a print; it is hand-painted with a brush, with details and color textures that give materiality and intensity to the work.
The work is an original, and of great painterly value, a value that is heightened by the fact that it is the first in the subsequent series of works.


Biography

MBAG was born in 2013 from the artistic and life partnership of Margherita Bobini and Andrea Gritti, two young artists who graduated with honors in Painting from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.

Margherita and Andrea begin to paint together, creating works that convey the beauty of nature through animal and plant subjects, with the aim of helping people understand and respect every form of life.

Their art ranges from portraits with abstract and geometric backgrounds to varying subjects each time, aiming to capture the viewer's eye with the contrast of vivid colors, realistic subjects, and dynamic backgrounds, with an expressionist rendering that lacks a sense of drama but is ironic and captivating.

In addition to important mural works, they often collaborate with the Museum of Urban Art, aiming to grasp the meaning and the soul of places, engaging with the territories by painting urban furnishings such as the famous Artist Benches. Their works have been exhibited in Italy and China.

Their body of work includes several drawings and paintings on canvas featuring subjects drawn from the natural and plant world, often presented in rhythmic intermingling with the human figure, which have been described as “captivating and engaging, with a strong pop matrix.”

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What do critics say:

M. Bobini and A. Gritti, professionally known as MBAG, are a young and close-knit artistic duo whose work I have been following closely for several years, watching their evolution. In just a few years they have drawn the attention of the Turin art scene with a concise and incisive style, made up of vivid, bright colors and a deft sense of compositional rhythm.

In addition to important Muralism works, often commissioned by the Museum of Urban Art, where they have proven able to grasp the sense and soul of places, engaging with the local contexts, Bobini and Gritti have developed an interesting series of canvas works. The subjects range from portraits, painted with a surprisingly expressionist approach that eschews drama but remains ironic and captivating, to representations of subjects drawn from the natural and vegetal world, often presented in a rhythmic blend with the human figure. This stems from the genuine passion they nurture for these worlds, a passion they pursue by tending to unusual animal species that are too often regarded as exotic.
I MBAG have created captivating and engaging paintings, with a strong pop sensibility, in which earth fruits that have long accompanied our daily lives in a thousand ways are depicted in the foreground, towering over abstract backgrounds and engaging in dialogue with participants from the animal world that rest gently on their surfaces, as companions along the road of the natural universe.

Edoardo Di Mauro