Stencil Superpop!

Actors who become icons, looks carved in myth, characters that make history. Al Pacino, Alfred Hitchcock Liz Taylor, Sofia Loren, Woody Allen, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley, James Dean.

Eight travel companions that Fabrizio Musa transfigures beyond pure representation, coming to express a precise idea and a precise aesthetic of the very universe of cinema. Not the simple or casual reproduction of frames extracted from the film, but a splendidly pop artistic intervention that reaches the serial reproduction of ten runs for each subject, creating a universe of characters who live as autonomous works.
From the cinematographic role to the logic of art, their value becomes a symbol. Musa gives life to pictorial moments that enter the timeless category of myth, precisely because they manage to distill and concentrate in the synthetic space of a single image all the value and power not only of the film from which they derive, but also of the entire universe of signs, symbols and values ​​to which the actor himself is hooked. Musa's continuous and incessant exploration of the languages ​​of contemporaneity, first of all cinema, leads him to the production of works that in the instant of action evoke the categories of intuition and knowledge, marvelously overturning the relationship of meaning between subject and a half. Not "closed" paintings, therefore, which limit information to pure cinematographic references, but "open" canvases to testify and transmit the meaning and power of an era, a story, a life. In this sense Fabrizio Musa manages to create a dialogue between the boundless space of the cinematic dream and a universe of reference points that gives life to modernity.

Sergio Gaddi
Councilor for culture - Municipality of Como