Pasquale de Sensi
The artworks of Pasquale de Sensi (Lamezia Terme, CZ, Italy- 1983) combine an imaginative, surreal style with a balanced sense of composition. The symbols he uses, estabilish a misteryous structure of corrispondences, based on affinity or contrast. In his collages can be traced elements taken from religious art, the italian Renaissance portraiture, as well as explicit references to Dadaism and classic punk collage. He studied graphic design and painting, with a particular interest in art history and phenomenology, in various Italian cities like Rome, Reggio Calabria, Urbino and Perugia. His chosen technique is collage. A marginal technique, considered to be minor, collage works as an immediate medium able to give access to a more fluid and not prectictable approach to the construction of the image. His collages look like a rebus whose solution belongs to a forgotten language. Here we can find the conjunction of opposing forces, the chance and the organization of it, the instinct and the control, but always under the light of a playful operation, tinged with irony.
Over the years he has worked with various galleries, curators, museums and cultural institutions. Beside the artistic activity, he works in the field of musical graphic, making artworks for bands, record labels and music festivals.
