Rodolpho Parigi

Atraque is the first publication on Rodolpho Parigi (b. 1977), one of Brazil's most talented and prolific young artists, and part of a new generation of Brazilian artists that emerged in the 2000's incorporating, in novel ways, the appropriation of architectural spaces, transcending the space of the canvas. His art production is characterized for the explosion of shapes and colors, mixing humor and originality, psychedelic traits and formal precision. This fine edition brings together his installations, paintings in large and small formats, collages, drawings on paper, a sculpture, along with graphic account of a "work in progress", an intervention elaborated in part in the walls of a gallery. Parigi's works were created between 2010 and 2011 and mix elements of botanic, the human body, music, sexuality, light and shadows, 3D perception, and animals from the past and the present/future expressed through a color palette that privileges magenta, red and pink. His creative process initiates with of the manipulation of shapes and recognizable figures and reaches the unrealistic images or "invented figurations". "Atraque is the synthesis of a work in progress marked by Apollo and Dionysus, one the god of beauty, temperance, and sound and the other of wine, intoxication, and erratic life. This simultaneity represents everyday work, belated and virtuous in its most carnal impulses that comes to light a courageous work, without chastity that seems to ask that we come closer, whispering in some corner at the foot of our ears, 'come and touch me'" (Our translation) --P. 23.