MASSIMO GIACON

A Bunny's obscure world, 2005, mixed tecnique, 80 x 60 cm.

The distinctive characteristic to Massimo Giacon's work is the total freedom of interaction between artistic genres in the intention of a complete nullification of expressive values into interchangeable codes. The constant theme linking his highly varied journey is the unpredictability and the scathing irony present in his work. You can sense a desecrating intention that expresses itself through conceptual declines, "alien interferences" that show themselves in assimilated graphic schemes of our perceptions creating a shiver, a jolt. Giacon's surrealism is an innocuous appearance by an artist that plays rather than judges.The artist's enjoyment seeps out and is contagious to the beneficiary in a playful interchange of emotions and thoughts.
In his eclectic and multiform work Massimo Giacon's transgression sometimes shows itself in a very marked way. Erotism, philosophy, religion and art lose their valency and become only "asteroids in the Giacon universe"
A large Luna Park (Fun Fair) sucks in the contemporary reality in all its different facets and thanks to the "deformed and coloured lenses" of the artist becomes part of an oneiric festival of delirium and joy.

Never-Let-meGo

From an iconographical point of view Giacon's work is characterized by smooth lines, bright and psychedelic colours bound together with contents which are often strong, irreverent and shocking tending to colour the "hard" world transforming it into a "baby shampoo tranquillizer".
In Giacon's universe absolute evil does not exist and even extreme situations are deprived of every dramatic aspect such as death, illness etc.
It is essentially a positive world in which a certain dissention is shown towards the marketing of the mass media and the impossibility to adhere to certain aesthetic models imposed by it moreover through the use of propaganda, especially American, displayed in the comic strip books of the 60's and the 70's.