Countdown to the show “This Is The End” which a group of artists promoted from below, finding, step by step, an increasingly wider network of collaborations, including that of Citizen which is the project’s media partner. The appointment is at Royal Palace of Monzain the conference room (next to the theater) from May 19th and until June 9thwith inauguration on Saturday 18th at 4.30pm.
The collective collects the works of Elisa Cella, Nicola Evangelisti, Nadia Galbiati, Roberto Ghezzi, Elena Ketra, Camilla Marinoni, Andrea Meregalli, Gabriele Micalizzi, Silvia Serenari, Matteo Suffrittiwhich they established for this purpose the cultural association And as a new reality promoting artistic initiatives and proposes in the title, the Doors song also present in the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now by Coppola: that film is in its DNA Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: two works, the artists recall, which “they make you think about‘horror, about madness and human psychology. In fact, the exhibition aims to be a cry proposed by the artists, who have always been sensitive to the vibrations that the world produces and custodians of their re-elaboration”. Art – they write – acts as a means to connect the various sciences involved, questions the present and calls professionals and the public to a collective reflection to face the challenges of the future. Here are the profiles of the artists.
This Is The End, the exhibition in Monza and its artists: who is Andrea Meregalli
Artist: Andrea Meregalli
Andrea Meregalli was born in Seregno (MB) in 1977, lives and works in Monza. After graduating from high school and graduating in architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan, he opened his own professional studio with Maddalena Merlo, dealing with design at different levels. At the same time develops personal research projects in the artistic and editorial fields, working for years without exposing anything. In 2020, during the lockdown, he decides to make his work public, he creates Culomiaostamp engraved in the rubber, and the Culomiao Editions, independent distillery of self-produced books and spirits. In 2022 he published for Postmediabooks “The Adventures of Culomiao”, with an afterword by Giulio Alvigini. Thoughts, words, works and obsessions. Research in visual communication has its roots in technical and scientific studies. The works oscillate between total randomness and maniacal control. He transmits messages through paintings, drawings, prints, one-off books and digital techniques. He uses pencils, pens, markers and everyday objects together with acrylics, enamels, oil, pixels and molds. Always attentive to new technologies, he immediately began experimenting with artificial intelligence software for generating images, with texts and videos to support his research. With his work he aims to represent everyday life in its uselessness, the patinas, the stratification and the psychosis between irony and paradox. Few emotions. Just enough cynicism to make the present bearable.
In 2024 he is the curator of the personal exhibition “The usual writings” Of Giulio Alvigini at the Opos space in Milan. Among the exhibitions we highlight: the collective “Scoletta dell’Arte: Digital reform”in Venice organized by Taex edited by Antonio Geusa; the collective “The game” edited by Silvia Franceschi at Spazio Blue Train and The Kitchen art gallery in Milan; the personal “Collective Psyche” edited by Vittoria Mascellaro to the gallery Contemporary Villa in Monza; the collective “The Rights From Future Generations. A Perspective On (A)rt And (I)nnovation” edited by Vittoria Mascellaroin the rooms of Court theater of the Royal Villa of Monza; Baw 2022 Bolzano Art Weeks, Memento/Moment(o)/Monument(o) curated by Nina Stricker. Since 2023 he has been invited to various talks on the relationship between art and artificial intelligence and has exhibited three artists’ books at Book object, at the Adi Design museum in Milan. On the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2023 he is the creator of the Milano desAIgn Week and the Monza desAIgn Week.
