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visual artist, illustrator cartoonist
Paolo Deandrea
via Roma, 26 28010
Agrate Conturbia (NO)
ITALY
Paolo Deandrea, born in Milan in 1963, graduated in Illustration and Comics.
Since the early '80s, I have worked in publishing and advertising as an illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist.
In 2015, I started painting "le Moschine," a small crowd of surreal, bewildered, and somewhat melancholic characters that echo the style and characters of American cartoons from the early decades of the 1900s.
Noisy, cheerful, romantic, but also grotesque, violent, and cruel.
They speak a childish language but not affected, much more authentic and wild than their more domesticated and reassuring successors. They can be equally naive, mean, kind, generous, and cruel as only children can be.
They move in a very dangerous world, a wild west where at any moment they can receive a piano on their head or a stick of dynamite; they can explode, be cut in two with an axe, or end up under a steamroller. In a moment, they will calmly resume walking while whistling. They are funny, simple, grotesque, silly; melancholic, dramatic, and even unsettling.
They never take themselves too seriously but move forward with their heads down, and they will never abandon their stubborn and senseless trust in what the next sequence will have in store for them.
I paint on canvas and wood with acrylic colors, chalks, and colored pencils, which I then fix and finish with semi-gloss transparent protective varnishes.
I love seeing my finished works framed: I often use vintage frames that I buy at flea markets or small antique shops, which I then restore and paint. The retro frames, often decorated and gilded, create a fun contrast with the cartoon subjects.
«I draw comic, grotesque, naive characters, sometimes a bit unsettling, who go headlong with gigantic smiles»
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