A bonus in Genoa was the exhibition by Guillermo Mordillo at the Museo Luzzati in the old port area. Although I was familiar with a couple of his works (I always wrongly assumed he was Italian) seeing the real stuff is always that much more rewarding.
Mordillo is still going strong at the venerable age of 78. His silent humour features love, animals, nature, sports, and man's ultimately futile and hopeless endeavors in a language that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, disarmingly simplistic, graphically faultless and vibrantly colorful.
My favourite work from this exhibition is a piece that was commissioned by Amnesty International. It features a monochromatic townscape and police arresting a man who dares to paint the roof of his house in vivid, wavy pink lines. A brilliant depiction of the tragic rendered in comic language.
The exhibition runs till the 8th of January 2012.
Mordillo is still going strong at the venerable age of 78. His silent humour features love, animals, nature, sports, and man's ultimately futile and hopeless endeavors in a language that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, disarmingly simplistic, graphically faultless and vibrantly colorful.
My favourite work from this exhibition is a piece that was commissioned by Amnesty International. It features a monochromatic townscape and police arresting a man who dares to paint the roof of his house in vivid, wavy pink lines. A brilliant depiction of the tragic rendered in comic language.
The exhibition runs till the 8th of January 2012.
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