Is Michelangelo dead?

The collection realized by Enrico Pambianchi within 2012 and 2013 is inspirated by the great master Michelangelo Antonioni ; last year was the centenary of Antonioni's birth and artworks by Pambianchi were exposed in a collective titled Is Michelangelo dead? (Centro Studi Dante Bighi of Copparo in 2012 and Palazzo Savonuzzi in Ferrara in 2013).

We know that the director was influenced by art in each work of his (from De Chirico to Pollock) and now we can see if also the contrary could happen. Could movies by a father of the modern cinema influence a contemporary painter?

Both artists are linked by the same town, Ferrara, so protagonist of Antonioni's movies with its long, large, beautiful and calm streets, mirror of the elegance and idlness of a little province town.

Both Antonioni and Pambianchi depict contemporary anxiety: the director with elegance ans sensibility, the painter with energetic sarcasm. Pambianchi shake up the tipical calm of Antonioni's movies with his Iperrealismo Visionario. The painter takes out a frame from the film and reworks it with collages and drawings obtaining violence explosions or iconosclastic pictures. For example the tipycal choice to put comics in some scenes, is amazing for the observer and it's a way to turn off the sense of anxiety.

This is the principal character of Pambianchi's works which represent reality through redeeming visions of unforgettable icons or common people who in the past were represented with disquieting appearance.