Biography
Andrea Fiorino was born in 1990 in Augusta, Sicily, and lives and works in Milan.
Fiorino brings to life an immortal project, expressed pictorially in the circularity of forms and in the flowing brushstroke, which sees the body as a portal to cross, a wound-fissure from which the creation of a new life departs, evoking the myth of Eve's creation from Adam's rib. A world in constant renewal, where everything transforms and determines itself by the immortality inherent in nature. A paradise of harmony and spirituality, which is now lost. The iconographic and thematic sources of the works are indeed representations of the moment of creation, as transmitted by Scriptures, even in its non-predominantly Christian sense and therefore drawn from other religious contexts such as Eastern or even earlier, characteristic of a prehistoric, primitive reality.
At the moment of creation, man appears for the first time on Earth and, by interacting with it, becomes effectively an inhabitant, as he establishes a relationship of collaboration and interrelation with the natural world. In the paintings of the young artist, water, air, earth are the primary elements with which man interacts, but also entities rich in symbolism that recur in non-Western primitive images, such as the totem.
Fiorino's language, of great effectiveness and expressive power, makes use of the communicative possibilities of color, applied with fluid brushstrokes and in vibrant tones, to give his subjects the evidence and immediacy of a tribal image, an oceanic mask, or a cave painting, consistently with the theme to which his works refer, the lost paradise where the relationship between man and nature was still authentic and untouched by civilization and progress.
