Michele Nave
C:> Surrealist painter
The NAVE world
Painting, music, technology: different languages of the same universe.
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"Michele Nave's inner dimension is the dream that lets him soar into the visionary world of fantasy and transcend reality, expressing the life of the unconscious and automatic psychological associations."
Mirella Ruggieri
from the catalogue of the exhibition 'Energia creativa, tra astrazione e figurazione', Venice, 2017
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Surrealist oil paintings, drawings, portraits, books and information about the artist.
"Michele Nave, from the dreamlike to the determination of the symbol"
Michele Nave constantly investigates, reinventing himself as his work unfolds, and works with precision and meticulousness. Yet the final result is a pictorial creation that cannot be labeled, the product of a savoir-faire that exhibits a certain compositional naturalness, despite the labor behind it.
Michele Nave is a surrealist painter who expresses spaces, dreams, concepts, visions, determinations, thoughts, reflections, memories, moments of silence, and journeys into other realities in his paintings, clearly influenced by Dalí in the metaphysical sense of ...
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Joan Lluis Montanè
Associazione Internazionale dei Critici d'Arte (AICA)
"In dreams, everything is allowed. The veil of Maya is lifted, Plato's cavemen discover the sun, reality suddenly takes on a new form and greater meaning. An indecipherable logical thread appears to us and connects moments, brings objects closer, merges contexts, remote from each other. There is no value and no morality in dreams, but only a world of fantasy, which perhaps we would like to be real. With this idea, Michele Nave reveals in his works his inner dimension, dreamlike and honest, without criticism or rhetoric.
Michele Nave, born in Rivoli in 1975, is an artist with various interests: self-taught painter, cartoonist, professional ...
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Vittorio Sgarbi
Art Historian
Michele Nave's painting presents itself as a very useful example of that hyper-figurative practice which constitutes the most convincing and mature response that Europe has been able to offer to the rising American hyperrealism that established itself in the 1960s.
Within these creative dynamics, our artist's work stands out for the happy combination it offers of a light-hearted and mellow reading of the surrounding reality and for an examination of the existing conducted with the fascinated eye of a fantastic perspective.
The result emerges of a painting that we could also define as 'timeless', a painting in which the atmospheres of th...
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Prof. Rosario Pinto
Art Critic and Historian
Michele Nave's inner dimension is the dream that allows him to soar into the visionary world of fantasy and transcend reality, expressing the life of the unconscious and automatic psychological associations. In dreams, we think in images, and since figurative art formulates images, it is the most suitable medium for bringing out the profound contents of the psyche, also represented through symbols. Thus, everyday objects become fragments of evocative intuitions floating in dreamy spaces. Nave places great importance on compositional technique in order to highlight both the general concept and the various aspects of an elusive, evolving realit...
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Mirella Ruggeri
Art Critic
Michele Nave's painting is enriched with refined references drawn from the vast repertoire of art history, from rock art to street art, from elements of Renaissance and eighteenth-century iconography to the twentieth-century avant-garde. There are also strong references to photography (Thomas Struth), graphic design (from Escher to the iconic cover of Pink Floyd's Animals), comics (Marvel heroes), and street art itself.
All languages Nave knows well. A reference to the past, therefore, subtly intertwined with forays into the present. His oil paintings blend diverse and profound symbolism to construct sophisticated narratives and semantic...
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Federica Facchini
Art Critic
"Michele Nave focuses his research on the communicative power of images drawn from different cultural contexts and combined in a dialogue between past and present. The architecture of the Venetian tradition, the details of classical works, the references to the great masterpieces of the Renaissance coexist with the icons and symbols of contemporaneity in a space marked by a surreal suspension of time. The references to Surrealism and Metaphysics blend in the eclectic reworking of images and in the translations of meanings that open to different interpretations. In his Imaginary Venices, the various iconographic references appear in the clear ...
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Roberta Gubitosi
Art Critic
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Entering the intuition at the origin of the pop art of the first American gallery owners, and reversing its intent, Michele Nave sarcastically publicizes the hegemonic delusions of power, promoting a paradoxical national creativity.
Here the event is amplified in its sarcasm, and in this sense does not allow for fiction, except for the becoming other of common naivety: making the mind work differently is the task of irony, which here plays on the failed actions that emerge from the surrealist text of the golden background of dreams.
Recognizing in the deformation of ...
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Alessandro Nicoletti
Art Critic
"Nave Michele" Neo-surreal expressionist flashes struck by dreamlike metaphysics.
A captivating style for a multifaceted and eclectic artist who embraces the ever-innovative tradition of art in all its possible facets, experimenting with ever-new techniques and modern frontiers that reveal the veil of maya to the inner dimension of the dream. A lucid, fantastic dream world we would like to penetrate, as if it were real.
If technologies and telematic monsters of poverty rage around us, making us live in virtual homes, the frenzy of modernity, his metaphysical experience reveals the current chaotic, unstoppable race, which engulfs us if w...
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Alfredo Pasolino
Art Critic
An exciting and narrative style, partly inspired by metaphysics and partly by surrealism, characterizes the artistic experience of Michele Nave, whose dreamlike and imaginative artistic painting style reveals all of his communicative strength and splendid sample collection of shapes, transforming the patterns of a world that finds in Magritte, De Chirico and Dalì its own protective deities.
An exciting and narrative style, which is partly inspired by metaphysics and partly by surrealism, characterizes the artistic experience of Michele Nave, whose dreamlike and imaginative artistic painting style reveals all of his communicative strength a...
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Silvia Arfelli
Art Critic
"De-signum," "sign around," is the formal element that outlines Michele Nave's artistic work. With strong intellectual and ethical motivations, he expresses his idea of reality. The sign is clear, clean, and of constant depth, and in color, a never material and often divergent support surface, we find the light of his inner vision and the solution between the dialectic of thought and emotion. With an idealistic cultural attitude, he represents space as a mental fact supporting a geometric game in which perspectives find themselves with particular accents and complete the compositional organization. Rational and imaginative horizons are arti...
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Francesca Lauria Pinter
Art Critic
In his works, Michele Nave captures the essence of reality, the profound perception of realistic objectivity. The artist primarily represents the surreal, but also the metaphysical. We find settings that appear realistic but are actually dreamlike visions. The images are surrounded by mysterious atmospheres that are highlighted through the use of a perspective created according to different vanishing points. The images, composed of objects, internal and external elements, statues and mannequins, mythological characters, are created through precise drawing and uniform, flat coloring. The scenes come to life in timeless dimensions; each element...
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Surrealist painter, musician and developer.
My name is Michele Nave and I paint to explore what cannot be seen but can be felt. My art comes from the need to tell of inner worlds: visions suspended between dream and thought, between symbol and reflection. Every painting is a fragment of my universe, an invitation to look beyond the visible.
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