Paolo Treni was born in 1981 on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. Now, he lives and works between Brescia and Milan.
In Milan, he graduated in Communications at Cattolica University and received a degree at Teatro Arsenale theatre school. His relation with Theater shaped his artistic research and gave him the opportunity to work in the Scenography Lab of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, applying to “set design” the artistic movement analysis method developed by the French Master.
The Lab is the place where his Art turns from project into real practical process. Treni is aware that it’s up to the artist managing that sort of alchemy which transforms the plexiglas surface, through lasers, enamels, pigments and varnishes, in the perfect support for embracing his dreamlike world.
Plexiglas become a medium, able to catch light energy, and then radiate it in a changing chromatic spectrum, generating emotional resonance between colours variation, due to the changing brightness in space, and shades aroused in the observers emotions. In a dynamic of attraction-repulsion, spectators are led to explore each artwork nature and effect, moving along the wall in search of the focal point in which colours turn on and composition come to life. “Le Chasseur de Lumieres” is an important project and milestone achieved in his eclectic career, exhibited in September 2013 in Paris, in the prestigious context of the Maison & Objet fair. He’s given the graphic design for two prototypes of heated towel rails made of backlit glass. Noticed by architects and interior designers, he began various cooperations, which led him to acquire the commission of several artworks made of plexiglas, that are inserted, in 2014, in private Milanese collections.
Thanks to AISTHESIS. At the root of sensations, exhibition visited in 2014 at Villa Panza in Biumo, he found out the main value of interaction with customers. In this case, site-specific installations by Robert Irwin and James Turrel, Masters in perception and installation Art, were significant.
The relation with customers became essential in his creative process. People “perception” leads him imagining congruent shapes and colours, with both human soul and collector living place, so designing a sort of architectural portrait, set like a precious stone. His artworks, whether made by a single support or complex installations, re-shape the environment, creating new balance. It’s about artworks going beyond aesthetic beauty and formal elegance, releasing a pulsating energy that turns on when it gets in touch with the shining microclimate of space in which they are placed, highlighting the customer personality and his intention to exist and imagine.
In 2015, thanks to this modus operandi, he gained the commission of Afflatus Caelestis, which takes part of the Countess Dania Zani Barranco collection, together with artworks of important Masters, such as Tilson, Chagall, Picasso.
In 2017 he had the honor of receiving the Premio Montale Fuori di Casa Award, in theArt category. The award is assigned in memory of the Italian Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale, thanks to his ability in combining aesthetic research, art and poetry.
In 2018 he set up his first public solo exhibition at Fortezza Firmafede in Sarzana (Sp), curated by Ivan Quaroni and titled “Simulacra”.
The work “CPH4”, one of his “Simulacri di Luce”, is acquired in the Collection of Human Relations by Baroness Lucrezia De Domizio Durini at Palazzo Durini in Bolognano (Pe).
In September 2018 he is the youngest artist to become part of the permanent collection of the Park Museum – International Center of Outdoor Sculpture in Portofino, chaired by Daniele Crippa and curated by Serena Mormino, alongside the works of the greatest artists of the Modern and Contemporary Art.
Paolo Treni was born in 1981 on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. Now, he lives and works between Brescia and Milan.
In Milan, he graduated in Communications at Cattolica University and received a degree at Teatro Arsenale theatre school. His relation with Theater shaped his artistic research and gave him the opportunity to work in the Scenography Lab of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, applying to “set design” the artistic movement analysis method developed by the French Master.
The Lab is the place where his Art turns from project into real practical process. Treni is aware that it’s up to the artist managing that sort of alchemy which transforms the plexiglas surface, through lasers, enamels, pigments and varnishes, in the perfect support for embracing his dreamlike world.
Plexiglas become a medium, able to catch light energy, and then radiate it in a changing chromatic spectrum, generating emotional resonance between colours variation, due to the changing brightness in space, and shades aroused in the observers emotions. In a dynamic of attraction-repulsion, spectators are led to explore each artwork nature and effect, moving along the wall in search of the focal point in which colours turn on and composition come to life. “Le Chasseur de Lumieres” is an important project and milestone achieved in his eclectic career, exhibited in September 2013 in Paris, in the prestigious context of the Maison & Objet fair. He’s given the graphic design for two prototypes of heated towel rails made of backlit glass. Noticed by architects and interior designers, he began various cooperations, which led him to acquire the commission of several artworks made of plexiglas, that are inserted, in 2014, in private Milanese collections.
Thanks to AISTHESIS. At the root of sensations, exhibition visited in 2014 at Villa Panza in Biumo, he found out the main value of interaction with customers. In this case, site-specific installations by Robert Irwin and James Turrel, Masters in perception and installation Art, were significant.
The relation with customers became essential in his creative process. People “perception” leads him imagining congruent shapes and colours, with both human soul and collector living place, so designing a sort of architectural portrait, set like a precious stone. His artworks, whether made by a single support or complex installations, re-shape the environment, creating new balance. It’s about artworks going beyond aesthetic beauty and formal elegance, releasing a pulsating energy that turns on when it gets in touch with the shining microclimate of space in which they are placed, highlighting the customer personality and his intention to exist and imagine.
In 2015, thanks to this modus operandi, he gained the commission of Afflatus Caelestis, which takes part of the Countess Dania Zani Barranco collection, together with artworks of important Masters, such as Tilson, Chagall, Picasso.
In 2017 he had the honor of receiving the Premio Montale Fuori di Casa Award, in theArt category. The award is assigned in memory of the Italian Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale, thanks to his ability in combining aesthetic research, art and poetry.
In 2018 he set up his first public solo exhibition at Fortezza Firmafede in Sarzana (Sp), curated by Ivan Quaroni and titled “Simulacra”.
The work “CPH4”, one of his “Simulacri di Luce”, is acquired in the Collection of Human Relations by Baroness Lucrezia De Domizio Durini at Palazzo Durini in Bolognano (Pe).
In September 2018 he is the youngest artist to become part of the permanent collection of the Park Museum – International Center of Outdoor Sculpture in Portofino, chaired by Daniele Crippa and curated by Serena Mormino, alongside the works of the greatest artists of the Modern and Contemporary Art.
I create simulacra in a perpetual relationship with light. This means that in every work of art colors are transformed according to light conditions, depending on the moment in which they are observed.
I try to evoke in the viewer the pulsating energy of living matter. Each creation comes from a journey into my emotional memory: I draw on the fantastic dimension, where inner visions blend with the collective imagination, emotions arise, colors crystallize with the power of a lucid dream.
To the word Art I associate three concepts: simplicity, beauty, poetry.
I make poetry with light, investigating the connections between color and shape, molding works that attract the eye by playing with reflections.
My aim is an engaging aesthetic experience for the observer: this opens the way to a process of inner immersion and the consequent move to a contemplative dimension. I try to make people enter my dreamlike world, in which I have always been looking for deep contact with the vital energies of nature and the phenomena of the cosmos. From here emanate a mysterious charm and a formal elegance that reflect the tension of each individual to be the one who never coincides with himself and always seeks the beyond.
The essence of my artwork is based on simplicity and lightness; I work meticulously so that the complexity of the realization does not burden the final effect. In my laboratory, I transform common sheets of Plexiglas into the ideal support for the material transcription of my dreams. For this purpose, I use lasers, enamels, pigments, and varnishes in overlapping layers, to obtain a sublime and luminous compound. The result is a new medium able to create an emotional resonance between author and spectator.
Through reflectivity, each work spontaneously stimulates the viewer in search of the most satisfying observation point, initiating a maieutics dialogue, destined to last over time.
Paolo Treni
Paolo Treni artworks, realized with lasers, enamels, and varnishes applied in subsequent stratification on plexiglass support, deal with the material transcription of dreams, live thanks to light reflection and refraction.
Treni succeeds in harnessing the vital atmosphere, that comes from the surrounding environment, into plexiglass, by ensuring that this material catches the light intensity and then radiates it in a changing chromatic spectrum.
Thanks to an admirable compositional balance, an ongoing harmony among contrasting elements, this artist can establish a deeply emotional and empathic resonance with observers.
Gradually, Paolo Treni’s work evolution combines two-dimensional production to wall installations in a bigger dimension that dialogue with space, until well-rounded installations.
From his first artworks designed on black background, with strong chromatic contrasts having holographic reminiscences, he passes to an investigation on color-shape relation linked to space: topics in his artworks represent both technological fragmentation and current explosive technological revolution, as well as artworks focused on fluids world visually interpret the concept of liquid post-baumanian modernity. His “Nuvole”, for example, maintaining the reflection and refraction effects, peculiar to the living magmatic matter, evokes, in the observers, the child’s imaginative potential in front of the eternal clouds generation play. In “Goccia d’Abisso” he moves to the tridimensional installation and the light-color-shape relation is enriched by the shadows projected from each panel. This one, in turn, relates to lights and colors, arising or hiding new shades, according to the point of view or movement of observers in space.
Exhibitions
2019 : Luisa Catucci Gallery – Berlin
2018 : Portofino
Fortezza Firmafede, Sarzana (SP)