United States

Michael Bevilacqua

Italy

Milano

The Flat - Massimo Carasi

Painting

Demon Brother   21” x 16” , 53x41

He paints like a girl 

Mr. Patchouli 

Natura Morto 

Andrea Carpita

Portrait with blue sweater 

Portrait on black floor   

She'll come back as fire

Untitled (May 26, 1989), 2019, mixed media on linen, 65x45 cm

Untitled (May 26, 1989) #1

Queen of lies

Untitled

Useless portrait in a black bathroom

Radiance from the Waters, 2018, acrylic on archival digital canvas, 200x140x4 cm

Radiance from the Waters  

Karma Police 

7 Day Binge   

The Flat - Massimo Carasi gallery is proud to present "In my Room", a two-man exhibition featuring works by Michael Bevilacqua and Andrea Carpita.
The show brings together two narratives developed in different contexts – the New York Bronx for Bevilacqua and provincial Tuscany for Carpita. Both "stories" are based on the artist's relationship with his own creative space (the studio) and are united by similar attitudes and common practices.
Musical icons and pop elements also create the pretext of a series of linked images that reveal an autobiographical intent, defining an atmosphere that is at times intimate and blurred.
Two distinct visions in which painting and the elements of visual memory mix in a single room.
In my Room is also the title of a song by the Beach Boys, in which Brian Wilson and Gary Usher tell of how the "room" quickly becomes a privileged kingdom and how within it, fear does not exist.
It is in fact a secluded space, a special place reserved for the mind, where feelings are allowed to flow freely in the attempt to visualize a clear image.
The two artists, who are both demographically and geographically distant, engage with a selection of works capable of dialoguing with each other.
Painting is the means, the daily gesture of retreating into the evolutionary exercise that every artist performs, distancing him/herself from the world.
Michael Bevilacqua has forged his own poetic essence to the rhythm of countless bands that have performed on both coasts of the United States for many decades. Traces of these events have always been present in his works. In his latest works, particular attention is paid to the singer Lana del Rey, to whom Bevilacqua dedicates a series of portraits.
Andrea Carpita offers a series of works in which the themes of autobiography and portraiture focus on the figure of Kurt Cobain, with whom he was obsessed during his adolescence. The portraiture component blends with his study of color, while the figurative element is developed as an abstract work, developing digitally as if it were on canvas, through layers and levels of color and matter.

In my Room

In my Room

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