MBAG - Nautilus - ammonite

Opera: Nautilus Collezione: Custodi
Custodi is the title of the new MBAG 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, which runs through human history 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 marginalised in a society ruled by artificiality. The collection arises precisely from this need: to bring animals back to the center of 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 inspiration from Pop Art, turning the animals into real stars, making them symbols of beauty like Marilyn Monroe. Because society is now saturated with famous people, worldly images, consumerism products, there is never enough authentic relationships with the animal world.
The image is not a print, it is hand-painted with brush, with color details and reliefs that give materiality and intensity to the work.
The work is an original, of great painting value, a value that is added to the fact that it is the first of the following series of works.

Nautilus:
In the perfect geometry of its shell, mathematics and mystery intertwine. In its shapes sacred geometry. Living architecture.

A ladder that leads inside and upward at the same time.

Biografia:

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

Margherita and Andrea began painting jointly works that tell the beauty of nature through animal and plant subjects, with the aim of making every form of life known and respected.

Their art ranges from portraits with abstract and geometric backgrounds to different subjects each time, with the aim of captivating the viewer’s eye through the contrast of bright colors, realistic subjects and dynamic backgrounds with an expressive rendering devoid of melodrama but ironic and appealing.

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

Their production includes several drawings and paintings on canvas with subjects from the natural and plant world, often presented in rhythmic blend with the human figure, described as “captivating and engaging, with a strong pop matrix.”

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What critics say:

M. Bobini and A. Gritti, art name MBAG, are a young and cohesive artistic duo whose work I have followed for several years; I have observed their evolution. In a few years they have established themselves on the Turin art scene with a concise and incisive style, made of vivid and ringing tones and a skilled compositional rhythm.

In addition to important mural works, often commissioned by the Museum of Urban Art, where they have shown themselves capable of effectively grasping the sense and soul of places, dialoguing with the territories, Bobini and Gritti have developed an interesting series of works on canvas. The subjects range from portraits, painted with surprisingly expressive rendering devoid of drama yet ironic and captivating, to representations of subjects from the natural and vegetal world, often presented in rhythmic blend with the human figure. This stems from the authentic passion they nurture for these worlds, and which they practice by caring for unusual animal species unfairly deemed exotic.

The MBAG have created captivating and engaging paintings, with a strong pop matrix, where earth’s fruits that have always accompanied our daily life in a thousand ways are presented in the foreground, towering over abstract backgrounds and in dialogue with actors of the animal world that rest gently on their surface, as companions on the journey of the natural universe.

Edoardo Di Mauro