emilio merlina
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Biography
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I was born in 1950 in the North East of Italy from a polish mother and a sicilian father.
I toured the world until I was 35, then I returned to Italy and picked up again my old passion: painting and sculpture.
As for myself, I can only say: thoughts and paintings, paintings and thoughts. Everything maybe useless, however everything is life.
"The human being leaves its signs, graffiti, indian dreams and imagination.
Now I only have left a few more possibilities to express the colors which are not.
Only the sign, scratched, angry or brushed is the witness.
The sign has passed from there and there it has lived."
Emilio Merlina
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Statement
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THE FIGURES
POPULATING THE ARTIST' WORLD ARE SLIM AND LENGTNED, KNIGHTS COMING FROM AN IRREAL PAST THAT REMINDS, FOR MELANCHOLY AND BEAUTY,DON CHISCOTTE OF CERVANTES.
ALTHOUGHT THEY HAVE HELMETS AND SWORDS, THE KNIGHTS OF MERLINA DO NOT SEEM INTERESTED TO DUELS,
BUT TO THE TRAVEL AS UNIQUE REAL AIM OF EXISTENCE .
A INCESSANT PEREGRINATION AT THE RESEARCH OF SOMETHING INDEFINITE:THE SERENITY,A LOST DREAM,A NIGHTMARE OR A FAR MUSIC.TO THE TRAVEL'S THEME ALTERNATE REFLECTIONS ABOUT IMPALPABLE REALITIES AND THE SAME KNIGHTS, PRESENTED BEFORE AS VALOROUS TRAVELLER,BECOME REFLECTIVE AND SAD,ACCOMPANIED BY A RED VIOLIN OR DOMINATED BY A BIG DARK CROVE,OR,AFTER,LIKE EXPLORATORS:WE CAN FIND THEM OPENING NEW DOORS ON THE UNDISCOVERED WORLDS,TRYING TO INDAGATE ABOUT WHAT IS MORE UNDERSTANDABLE:THEMSELVES. THE BEAUTY OF THESE OPERAS CAN BE NOTICED IMMEDIETELY,THE BRIGHTNEING COLOURS AND THE FIGURES CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC IN A ANOMALOUS DIMENSION,WHERE ERRANT KNIGHTS MAKE IMPROBABLE WARS AGAINST WINMILLS AND THEY GET DEFEATED. PROTAGONIST ABSOLUT SO IT IS THE PHANTASY,THE IMAGINATION,NOT ONLY OF THE AUTHOR,BUT ALSO OF WHOM,OBSERVING THE WORKS,CAN IMAGINE A POSSIBLE HISTORY.
ALICIA FAVA
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Exhibitions
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Festa d'autunno citta di Spilimbergo
in casa Bevilacqua 18/19/20 october 1996
Officina degli Angeli
Palazzo Lettimi 08/12/97-08/01/98
Rimini
Artlives first international exhibition
Reconcilable Differences
The Jersey Galleries
Osterley Park House London UK
02/27 April 2003
Arteadesso Rottura della marginalita
nel segno di internet
Palazzo Orgnani Martina
19 July-09 August 2003 Venzone Italy
Ibere Camargo Gallery
Porto Alegre Brazil
Featuring the works of the members of
Artlives and Chico Lisboa Artist's Association of Rio Grande do Sul
August 5 to August 30 , 2003
Orchestrazione 11 - recycleart
Porto dei Beneandanti
October 18 to October 23,2003
Portogruaro Venezia
Gomboe Gallery,Middle Swan
Western Australia
Feauturing the works of the members of the Chico Lisboa Artist's Association on Rio Grande do Sul
and 20 guest artists from 11 nations around the world
February 2 to February 22 , 2004
Arteadesso
Palazzo Frisacco
Tolmezzo Udine 13/03 - 31/03 2004
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