ARTIST PROFILE

andrea nadzan zanotti

  • Italy (b. 1973 in Clusone (bg))
  • Currently in Venice, Italy.
  • I use of organic materials, natural because of their potential expressiveness, emphasizing not only the work itself but the process of original hybridization between the cubic and geometric forms of minimalist echo with organic elements.

REPRESENTATION

ARTIST STATEMENT

2007-.Selected for the Master's specialization in three months:12 ° Specialization Course Artistic Treatment of Metals "TAM Centre", organized by the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, supported by the European Community, the Marche Region, Municipality of Pietrarubbia (PU) share in the conception / design / realization of the "Domino-Domain" at the Museum of Contemporary Art by Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pietrarubbia (PU), (Italy) 2007. Figure Outgoing: Technical Specialist in the artistic working of metals.
2006/04 Specialist degree in sculpture , Brera Accademy of arts, Milan, Italy.
2006/04 Enabling teaching in sculpture, Brera Accademy of arts, Milan, Italy.
2003/94 Sculpture degree at Brera Accademy of art,Milan, Italy.
1986/1991- Hight Art School " L.A.S. Giacomo Manzu' " Bergamo, Italy.


BIOGRAPHY

Andrea Zanotti (1973) is a sculptor who graduated from the Academy of the Fine Arts of Brera in Milan.He experiments with the possible relationships , tensions and synergies between materials, the environment and the light and space in which plastic forms materialize and expand thanks to the quality of the materials chosen and associated together as well as for their physical specificity and originality.
In his recycled discarded objects new experiments and formal solutions are evoked in which can be found/read the sign and the prophecy of the destruction of the habitat which was already announced by the conceptual artists of the 60s and 70s.
Zanotti writes: "the materials used in the work are clearly chosen in relation to the affinity with those occurred during the years of artistic training.In my later works , as well as iron and other elements I introduced other materials, including wax which I had already used in the artistic foundry I had worked in for 6 years.Wax fascinates me for its organic, transparent, protective capacity, and for its fragrance and essence of Zen.
After an early minimalist career , Zanotti started experimenting with "poor" materials and with these forms he proposes sustainable recycling, turning discarded objects and relics of the post-technological society into works loaded with a primary energy that enable the alchemical process of scrapping. Some sculptures are characterized by the flow of natural wax that seems to protect them not by nature but by man, iconising them and at the same time extrapolating them from reality.  
They are forms that revolve around the theme of energy and water delivered at the time of eternity 'through the protection of natural and perfumed wax.
Marshall Mcluahan writes: 'I have great faith in the ability of recovery and faculty of human adaptation...I hope our planet transforms into a work of art - the new man, integrated in the harmonious cosmic will become an organic form of art.'In these words lies Zanotti's message that integrates squared shapes with the use of organic materials, natural because of their potential expressiveness, emphasizing not only the work itself but the process of original hybridization between the cubic and geometric forms of minimalist echo with organic elements.