Against a backdrop of splashy brushwork, posterized figures, elegantly crafted from solid black, strike a pose. Concentrated hues, created with acrylic and spray-paint, clash on the canvas, forcefully brushed or dripping down the image to reveal textured layers beneath. Mainardi’s paintings employing the finest elements of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in perfect accord, a style he has dubbed "Pop Expressionism.” His work deals with many of the individualistic elements within Western… Show more Against a backdrop of splashy brushwork, posterized figures, elegantly crafted from solid black, strike a pose. Concentrated hues, created with acrylic and spray-paint, clash on the canvas, forcefully brushed or dripping down the image to reveal textured layers beneath. Mainardi’s paintings employing the finest elements of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in perfect accord, a style he has dubbed "Pop Expressionism.” His work deals with many of the individualistic elements within Western society that are responsible for both our ills and our triumphs. Mainardi is exploring “our consumerist society,” he explains, “in which the cult of the individual is more tangible than ever.” His creative eye is steadily focused back on our collective self, delighting in our contradictions while forcing us to confront them.He exhibits frequently in Europe, Asia and North America. He lives and works in Paris.Agora Gallery - NYC - June 2010He reveals the unspoken themes that inherently cling to our fantasies of sexuality and glamour. There is a darker realm beneath this glam imagery; Thomas’s paintings seem to be saying, as his work straddles the line between portrait and psychedelia.Thomas has said that the work process of painting constitutes a privileged universe of the “chromatic fields” which move him. For Thomas, art is a necessary subversion of normative social constraints which enables him to access a liberated sensuality and an exploration of fantasy. The result, his work, is a realm in which a glance, a posture, or a situation disturbs and irresistibly draws the attention. Thomas attempts to explore the contrast of moods which his work conjures as well as female iconography and its codes of seduction which permeate our society. His paintings, with their enigmatic titles and contemporary sirens, open up whole new worlds for us.ARTisSpectrum Magazine n°23 - NYC - May 2010 Show less

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