Moneyless @ Syntasizer
It’s impressive how figurative art can convey deep insights through only lines, colors and shapes in a plain geometric space.
Over the past few years, Teo Pirisi aka Moneyless has been performing this exact process of removal, obtaining complexity and completeness through simplicity and neatness. Starting with writing and lettering all over the walls, he immediately felt constrained within the two dimensional scale, and subsequently began to use different rough materials such as twine and wool yarns to give his figures a three-dimensional existence. These medias are real constituents of his unrelieved dialectical relationship with geometry. Cloves fix the focal points of the geometrical structures, created to represent things caught in the external physical world, then transposed into shapes conveying intangibile ideas of their reality. All the shapes are reduced, overall, yet still keep a tension that releases a nearly invisible motion. Hidden in the very inner shape, multiple visions and perspectives concealed by the entire structure finally cleverly come to sight, though interpretation by the holistic-eye is never instantaneous.
In Moneyless‘ words: “From my point of view, poverty in the very essence of the shape is a true richness, it represents the silence that permits the thought to emerge.”
If you’re intrigued in knowing more about this geometrical philosophy, Moneyless will be showing his works with paintings and installations from tonight @ Limited No Art Gallery, Via Porpora, 148 – Milan – together with Ryan Spring at Syntasizer.
By Elisa Lusso – sketch by Moneyless