Andrea Prandi started studying at Verona’s G.B. Cignaroli Fine Arts Academy, mainly taking painting, decorative arts, and anatomical drawing classes. On a quest for his artistic expression, he then spent many years working alongside Prof. Giorgio Scarato, a faculty member at the Cignaroli school as well as an illustrator with an international reach.
Since 2011 to date, he has been in various solo exhibitions and reviews in museums, galleries, and historic locations in Italian cities and abroad, including Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Miami, New York, and Dubai.
His art runs the gamut from digital art to video art, and from sculpture to art installations.
The early years of his production are spent in pop-culture experiments in a trait d’union between installation and painting, Instead, subsequent creations, born out of the encounter between art and science, focus on the secrets of the cosmos which resulted in the Mysteries of the Universe collection, of which the work Panspermia, awarded best digital art in 2015 at the 10th Florence Biennale, is mentioned.
In 2016, Prandi distinguished himself by receiving the Art Prize from Arte magazine, Mondadori, at the Palazzo Reale in Milan.
In 2017, the artist was in the 57th Biennale di Venezia as the Italian artist chosen to give his take on the La Marge art exhibition’s theme in the Guatemala National Pavilion. The work he submitted for the event, Blooming Soul, is a kinetic installation that conceals within itself a video art which narrates the subtle margin that separates Man from his inner child.
The award-winning work of art, thanks to its social resonance and artistic value, became part of the AIAPI Foundation’s permanent collection in Rovereto (TN).
That same year, after his participation in the New York Art Expo, at his solo show at Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona, Prandi unveiled Maze of Dreams, as the final expression of work that compares man with an unstable labyrinth — a metaphor for the dark meanderings of the mind.
In late 2017, at the Pall Mall Gallery in London, the artist introduces the labyrinthine line intended as a synthesis of thought vibration, now his peculiar, signature artistic identity, wich soon becomes a universal language for reflecting on the deeper meaning of human existence.
In 2018, the solo exhibition at Made4Art Gallery in Milan and the presence of his works in the Exhibition Halls of the Grand Mosque in Rome are mentioned.
In 2019 he submitted a new cycle of works on the labyrinth line theme at international Contemporary Art Fair in Thessaloníki and at the MAC Museo Arte Cultura in Milan.
Prandi’s latest artistic vision evolves in the LIFE >< LINE series: the life of a line in man’s mind.
The life’s journey is expressed with a line that originates, grows, and transforms through ongoing decisions such that sketch a unique plot — the fruit of experiences, the mirror of one’s soul.
In 2022, the first dual sculptures in the collection LIFE >< LINE are exhibited during the official events of Expo 2020 Dubai.
In 2023 the complete LIFE >< LINE Sculpture collection is presented at the international contemporary art exhibition Art Miami.
The interrelation between body and mind, between the concrete and the abstract, between practice and theory, is among the most complex of concepts. Thus, it is also one of the most fascinating, one that across the board has involved Man in a quest for a decisive universal theory that answers the questions prompted by this constant dualism.
For Andrea Prandi, the dualism theme would become a priority in his artistic expression, taken as something that is essential both to reality’s structure and to be recognized in every facet of the everyday life.
Prandi’s approach to the knowledge of human existence and its enigmas was determined from the very start by a dualistic division at its base. This ultimately results in the admission of multiple meanings that coexist in a single phenomenon, like the question of Panspermia or the perception between dreams and reality.
Indeed, every element harbors an internal rift that divides it into two perfectly equal but opposite parts, thus establishing an equilibrium of meanings: love and disappointment, male and female, or Nature itself which harbors a dual force within—that which generates life and that which ends it.
According to the artist, this inalienable division is supported by the theory that says matter is simultaneously a wave and a particle; in quantum mechanics, the principle of complementariness clarifies this aspect which holds that all of reality behaves dualistically from a physical standpoint.
Being aware of constantly swaying between a representation of reality and its opposite is the first step to understanding how the line between the two parts of a concept is so fine, and at the same time, so solid and important. Once Man has sensed and gathered the dualistic thought that governs and describes reality he will come to the right interpretation which, like an epiphany, will unveil the true nature of things, thus working out that which is only seemingly unfathomable to the human mind.
From here his artistic vision develops which ends up representing reality according to its dualistic nature, like our brain.
Every work, which embodies a “thought form”, appears by the principle of complementariness typical of quantum mechanics.
Studying dualism aims to understand that external observation of our dual opposite half is the essential path to inner understanding of ourselves.
In the artist’s most recent work, the language of the labyrinth line as a metaphor for life—his peculiar expression since 2017—takes on the dualistic theory of reality and interprets it, fleshing it out into Man’s various thinking capacities and his free will, in the balance between rational and emotional thought.
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