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march 30, 2021 - Dainelli Studio

The Queue | Leonardo Dainelli, co-founder of Dainelli Studio, presents his first exhibition at Meme Gallery in Milan


In occasion of the Milan #design Week, from 12 to 23 April, #leonardodainelli and #memegallery present the exhibition 'La Fila' (The Queue).

The project, exhibited in the gallery in viale Francesco Crispi 3 and beginning on 12 April, will feature a selection of paintings signed by the co-founder of #dainellistudio.

The paintings are the result of Leonardo Dainelli's creative experimentation. They pay tribute to Cubist painters from whom he draws very subtle and refined humour, and to the rigour of Bauhaus. Two artistic influences that deeply affected the designer's creative path. The subjects of the paintings, in fact, recall the two-dimensional portraits precious to Picasso and the designs of the German movement of the early 1900s.

The faces, geometrically disassembled and superimposed, give life to a series of stylised profiles envisioned by the concept of the exhibition that is as if they were in a queue - hence the title of the exhibition - waiting for their turn. 

The Queue

The theme of the queue was conceived as it spotlights the historical period which we are experiencing; a feeling of expectation, sometimes of immobility, but also at the same time a new sense of community, civilization, respect, closeness and connection with others. 

The exhibition, designed by the gallery owner Maria Angela di Pierro together with #dainellistudio, sees each painting facing the next painting, which awaits its turn with seraphic tranquillity. 

“More than a year after the start of the pandemic that has shocked the whole world, we are wondering what has really changed. It was said, 'we will come out of this on top'. We had thought that the epidemic would last weeks, months, seasons but we never would have imagined years. A concept that without any doubt has entered our daily lives and which, in Italy, we were not really used to is the concept of a queue. This pandemic, which has separated us in semi-serious equal distancing, has brought order to places through the multiple queues of #people found everywhere. The collection of the paintings 'Faces' by #leonardodainelli, exhibited at the #memegallery, represents a queue outside a shop, a supermarket, in the open air, in the street - one of the many types of queues that can be seen when walking around in these times."

Maria Angela di Pierro 

The paintings, produced on boards and canvas using different techniques, will be accompanied by a selection of decorative sculptures in marble and quarry stones: a small self-production signed by #dainellistudio that echoes the theme of the two-dimensional portrait.  

Faces

“The stylisation of the human face is a theme that has always fascinated me. In my freehand sketches, I found myself almost by chance drawing anthropomorphic profiles as a doodle that came out while lost in thought. My paintings were the first experimentation, then this theme found expression in my work as a product designer through decoration and sculpture."

Leonardo Dainelli 

Anthropomorphic profiles are a recurring element in the aesthetics of #leonardodainelli and #dainellistudio. They were originally drawings on canvas in the 'Faces' collection of paintings, but they also found room for expression in other #design projects such as the stone and marble sculptures created for Artemest, the Sirecom carpet collection and the wallpapers for Londonart.

Faces expressed with two-dimensional profiles, geometrically disassembled and superimposed, which synthesize space, time and the multiple points of view of our being. 'Faces' tells an anthropomorphic vision which, in exalting the similarities of the human being and stylising their features, also manages to expose the specific characteristics and uniqueness of the individual.