ADRIAN TRANQUILLI

Author: by courtesy of Artsinergy

Multimedia: by courtesy of Artsinergy

Hero, 2005. Tecnica mista 107 x 73 x 126

Adrian Tranquilli’s work relates to the body, to the physicalness of existense through an expressive short circuit playing on the interaction between the mediatic universe of the cinema and the comic strip with religious myths.
The connection with the contemporary is via a postmodern stamp due to the sense of new elaboration and citation of other images.
The artist shows his desire to slow down the speed of the mass media (cinema, comic strip, video clip) by seizing certain icons and bringing them to life in the slow space-time dimension of contemporary art and its elitist systems.
To fully understand his works relating to Batman we need to go back to the end of the 80’s, a truly important time for the comic strip which recovered from an economical and cultural slump.
“Contamination was the magical word, moreover a bringing together of different genres and forms. Confronting them and singling out elements, underlying the affinities, looking for interactions and possible combinations.
The ex-Cinderella of the mass media has passed the exam and is ready to measure up against high and low culture as he pleases. To get to this point has taken years of debates and battles, collisions, editorial courage and the ability to understand and take on other modes of expression." *

Adrian Tranquilli’s work relates to the body, to the physicalness of existense through an expressive short circuit playing on the interaction between the mediatic universe of the cinema and the comic strip with religious myths.
The connection with the contemporary is via a postmodern stamp due to the sense of new elaboration and citation of other images.
The artist shows his desire to slow down the speed of the mass media (cinema, comic strip, video clip) by seizing certain icons and bringing them to life in the slow space-time dimension of contemporary art and its elitist systems.
To fully understand his works relating to Batman we need to go back to the end of the 80’s, a truly important time for the comic strip which recovered from an economical and cultural slump.
“Contamination was the magical word, moreover a bringing together of different genres and forms. Confronting them and singling out elements, underlying the affinities, looking for interactions and possible combinations.
The ex-Cinderella of the mass media has passed the exam and is ready to measure up against high and low culture as he pleases. To get to this point has taken years of debates and battles, collisions, editorial courage and the ability to understand and take on other modes of expression." *