(August 8, 2017) The duality of science and mysticism. Impressed on materials with the simple use of water, air and pigment, never using hands, brushes, or any other tools. This is how the "Supernova" collection by Italian artist Enrico Magnani will be exhibited at the Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago from September 7 to October 6. The artist aims to bring attention to the phenomenon and consequences of the huge nuclear explosions that characterize the end of a star's life: the Supernova. ll the material released by the explosion is at the origin of the formation of new stars. The supernova thus poses as a symbol of death and rebirth, and the cyclic nature of the universe. (Ram)

ABOUT / THE ARTIST

Born in 1972, Enrico Magnani is an Italian artist active on the international art scene. His first exhibition opened in 1997 in Milan. Until 2006, he worked as a figurative painter and after a transition period, his work has become exclusively abstract. In the last few years, his original abstract artworks have brought him international attention. His works have been presented in museums, foundations, private galleries, and public institutions in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Britan, Italy, Vatican City and the USA. Finally landed to art after an eclectic journey that has seen him for years, even scientific researcher in nuclear fusion, at some point in his career, Magnani has felt the need to use art to proceed in those narrow paths of knowledge where the purely rational speculation is not enough, and it is necessary to draw from the emotion as well, to that intuition, not irrational, but "otherwise rational" that only art, at a certain level of development, can express.