Paris Hilton fell in love with her works after seeing them exhibited in a Milanese club. “I’m not going out of here without one of your works,” he would have exclaimed a Marco Michelini, in art Myfo, protagonist of the contemporary art scene.
But the heiress is only one of the large group of famous people who over time have courted the artist’s works. Its trademark is the highly recognizable bandit, an invented and ultra-pop character, evocation of that existential condition of contemporary man always on the run, and which today stands out on t-shirts and caps.
Attitude, the new chapter of the group Twinset designed for women and men looking for a new expression of themselves in clothes, it has in fact enlisted the artist for a collaboration halfway between art and fashion. A commonality of ideas and visions resulted in a collection composed of six oversized t-shirts and a baseball cap, which Myfo told us here.
T-shirts and caps have become your new canvases: what did you want to express through this collaboration?
“On these unpublished canvases I wanted to reproduce the figure of” the bandit “, an icon of my style since 2006. I believe that in each of us there can be a character like the bandit, understood in the meaning linked to the existential condition of contemporary man always on the run, but obviously with positive aspects: a modern-day Robin Hood. “
What do you think art and fashion have in common?
«Both express the personality of whoever wears or creates them. For example, in the creation of one of my works, the first draft of the canvas is dedicated to the transcription of a thought, what I call the soul of the work, on which the painting is made. Then some tears are made that enhance the materiality of the painting and let you glimpse the thought, almost as if through these tears you could see the most intimate layers of the work that only I know. Exactly what happens with people, it is not said that we want to reveal everything about us to the interlocutor. The same communication happens with our look because through our choice we tell our personality and our character. “
What does color represent for you?
“Critics call me a” spokesperson for fluorescent energy “, color for me is energy, rebirth, life. For the realization of the capsule collection signed Actitude Twinset the print of the subject stands out on the t-shirts and alternates with manual sketches with fluorescent colors that light up with UV light, recalling my technique on canvas, built through the use of spray paint , in fact, together with brushes and resin. “
His art is inspired by the works of Andy Warhol. If you had the chance to meet him what would have been the first thing you would have asked him?
«I would not have asked him questions, I would have liked to frequent him to understand his most intimate thoughts, going beyond his charisma and his genius, I would have liked to have been able to understand the complexity of the character. It is not enough for a person of such greatness and modernity to ask a single question. “
How did it affect you when Paris Hilton asked you for one of her paintings?
“Paris Hilton saw one of my works in a famous Milanese club, and her reaction was” wow but who is the artist? “. This prompted the owner to call me to meet her. Spending time with her was exciting, she liked my paintings so much that she bought one also because she literally said: «I don’t leave here without one of your works!». I felt flattered and encouraged to continue the work undertaken: I realized that if I was able to convey emotions through my art to a person like Paris, cosmopolitan and used to traveling receiving visual inputs continuously, then I should have continued my journey. “
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