“My name is Andrea Saltini, I was born in Carpi, a small town without music in the north of Italy. I express my art mainly through painting.
After studying art, becoming “Maestro d’Arte”, I have received a UDP Master's degree in Communication with a thesis entitled: How to Talk Dirty and Influence people.
For a few years I lived out of canned food, spending my days looking out the window, drooling in the throes of the mania of painting, waiting to, waiting to become an established painter”.
l’abominevole fanciulla delle nevimixed media on wood 110 x 195 cm2011 private collection
ero un puntino infinitamente caldo e densomixed media on paper 180 x 120 cm x 4 (pieces)2012/13 private collection
A Drooling Mania
As a child I enjoyed laying under trees, I liked disappearing in the fields and reappear as one that returns after a long journey, I used to draw a lot... people, animals, especially the faces; I liked to reproduce everything for what it is, or at least I was trying. At the age of eleven, under one of those trees, I invented and started drawing a story, than I forgot it. When it reappeared after some time, I thought to paint it. That’s how it started, more or less, my Playing with Art the secret game of a child who does not know what to wish or fear the most: to stay hidden or be discovered.Often the motivations of a secret do not hide anything reprehensible and the secret is simply our melody, the art that enchants us and makes us astonished witnesses of life.I believe that was the moment I opened myself to art.But who knows? ... I just know art is a woodworm, a drooling mania, a secret.I would have not started painting without a secret, to me painting it is just this: a deal, and enchantment, an invisible thread that ties us to an experience, a memory.
da intitolaremixed media on wood 100 x 120 cmserie: janitor of lunacy - 2013 private collection
un poeta francese di meno mixed media on canvas 200 x 160 cmserie: mauvais sang - 2014 private collection
l’impavido inglese di Mombracemmixed media on wood 240 x 220 cm2015 private collection
Why I am not a painter
I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would rather be a painter, but I am not. Well, for instance, a friend of mine is starting a painting. I drop in"Sit down and have a drink" he says. I drink; we drink. I look up: “You have SARDINES in it?” “Yes, it needed something there.” “Oh…” I go and the days go by and I drop in again. The painting is going on, and I go, and the days go by. I drop in. The painting is finished. “Where's SARDINES?”All that's left is just letters, “It was too much,” my friend says. But me? One day I am thinking of a color; orange. I write a line about orange. Pretty soon it is a whole page of words, not lines. Then another page. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. Days go by. It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery I see my friend's picture, called:SARDINES.
un poeta francese di meno mixed media on canvas 200 x 160 cmserie: pezzi domestici - 2014 private collection
Picasso uber allesmixed media on wood 185 x 125 cmserie: i capelli di Maria Antonietta - 2015 private collection
senza titolomixed media on wood 180 x 120 cmserie: i capelli di Maria Antonietta - 2015 private collection
in laudemixed media on wood 188 x 230 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? – 2017
quando il mare era blu il cielo era blu anche le onde mixed media on wood 188 x 130 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
Poem [Andrea Saltini has Collapsed!]
Andrea Saltini has collapsed!I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headlineANDREA SALTINI HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Carpi there is no rain in plain I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Andrea Saltini we love you!get up
il corredo se mi amassi di più non tremerei piùmixed media on wood 185 x 130 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
dicono che tutto è sbagliato e parlanomixed media on wood 180 x 120 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
se mi tiri giù non riusciròmixed media on canvas 220 x 180 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
a volte le cose sono proprio come sembrano, ecco tuttomixed media on wood 100 x 80 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
lunedì è il giorno delle sceltemixed media on wood 130 x120 cmserie: come puoi vivere a testa in giù? - 2017
carter il magomixed media on wood 188 x 230 cmserie: do you love me? - 2016
