MBAG - Barboncino Poodle

Opera: Poodle. Collection: Custodi
Custodi is the title of the new MBAG collection, a series of works created in recent years that investigates the deep relationship between human beings and animals. An ancestral bond, made of cohabitation, protection, and mutual recognition, which 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 artificiality. The collection is born precisely from this need: to bring animals back into the center of view, transforming them into symbolic and powerful presences within the domestic space, capable of conveying an emotional frequency made of respect, empathy, and awareness.
The style draws on Pop Art, turning animals into true stars, making them symbols of beauty like Marilyn Monroe. Because society is now saturated with famous people, worldly images, and consumerism, there is never enough authentic relationships with the animal world.
The image is not a print; it is hand-painted with brush, featuring color details and reliefs that give materiality and intensity to the work.
The work is an original, and of great pictorial value, a value that is added to the fact that it is the first of the next 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 at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.

Margherita and Andrea began painting in collaboration 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 capturing the observer’s eye through the contrast of vivid colors, realistic subjects, and dynamic backgrounds with an expressive rendering devoid of drama but ironic and captivating.

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

Their production includes several drawings and paintings on canvas with subjects drawn from the natural and vegetal world, often presented in rhythmic mixing with the human figure, which have been defined as “captivating and engaging, with a strong pop matrix.”

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What critics say:

M. Bobini and A. Gritti, known as MBAG, are a young and cohesive artistic duo whom I have followed closely for several years, watching their evolution. In a few years they have established themselves on the Turin art scene with a synthetic and incisive style, made of vivid and bright hues and a skilled compositional rhythm.

In addition to important mural works, often commissioned by the Museum of Urban Art, where they have proven able to effectively grasp 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 a surprisingly expressive rendering devoid of drama but ironic and captivating, to representations of subjects from the natural and vegetal world, often presented in rhythmic mixing with the human figure. This stems from the authentic passion they nurture for these worlds, which they practice by caring for unusual animal species unjustly considered exotic.
MBAG has produced captivating and engaging paintings with a strong pop matrix, where earthly fruits that have always accompanied our daily lives in a thousand ways are depicted in the foreground, towering over abstract backgrounds and engaging with actors from the animal world that gently rest on their surface, as companions on the journey of the natural universe.

Edoardo Di Mauro