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There is no escape from art.

Paolo Loschi, was born in Treviso in 1966, since his childhood he has always been an artist as art seemed his destiny, from which he could never escape. In this cynical time, when artistic activity is planned according to business and marketing aims, Loschi’s character stands out as one of the last immaginary avantguard artists, who rejects predetermined schemes.
As he always felt he was destined to the artistic profession, Loschi istinctively trained himself both in visual art and music. This experience boosted his creativity that conjugates sounds, colors and odours, turning them into memories – i.e. the smell of his very first artworks – and a visual and physical conception of colours.
His passion for colours has physical/ technical as well as poetic and philosophical connotations.
As Klee identified himself with colour while in Kairuan (Tunisi) - and said “ Colour is in me I know it will own me forever, that is why I am happy, the colour and I are the same entity. I am a painter “- likewise, Loschi, while in Siviglia, perceived everything as transformed by a beautiful light; like in Lisbon, where he found a big box full of bags containing blue colour powder. This seems like an anecdote written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez… as one of the strongest poetic metaphors for an artist, the epiphany of an imminent change.
Paolo Loschi has been showcasing his work for fifteen years, both in solo and collective exhibitions in Italy and many other countries. His most significant productions are “Pinocchio in noi”, that he exhibited in Treviso; “Retrattili”, that he started in Andalusia; “Angel de Tierra”, an important “ Spanish” series, and “Drappi”, wide canvas - among them “La vida es sueno” and “Sigismondo di Calderon de la Barca” his poetic alter ego and his most recent series; “B-bones – Replaceable bones”, that is his conceptual goal.

Blue’s mark.

Loschi can be defined an expressionist as well as a conceptual artist who loves to experiment with different techniques and whose work is inspired by Cobra’s nordic expressionism, Osvaldo Vicini’s Amalasunte, Jean Michel Basquiat and Klee’s fantasy’s world, Picasso, Surrealism and Duchamp’s irony; however, he does a very personal interpretation of these artists that become memories and evocations.
With regards to his technique, Loschi chooses to separate signs from colours, to bring them back together from time to time to create images that eventually might disappear.
The refinement of the lines through which Loschi shows his drawing skills is combined then with his expressionist sudden gestures and the seduction of bright colors. This relationship between lines and colours has changed along Loschi’s career giving place to different kinds of drawings and contrasts between colours that recall Basquiat’s work.
Loschi’s paintings often include intriguing presences in which the artist recognizes himself, as Narciso. For example in “Angel de Tierra” they represent the dark, diabolic aura of an “Angelos Satanas”, the wild angel identified by Gershom Scholem in his Kabbala studies, bringing with him a message of contemporary anxiety.
Another recurrent theme in Loschi’s work is the metamorphosis, that is the conceptual protagonist of the “B-bones” series. Also the emblematic character of Pinocchio, Loschi’s alter ego, is the protagonist of a metamorphosis. Pinocchio is the perfect metaphor of the role that the artist plays in the community, destined to change, from a wild to an ordinary person, that suits conventions – which luckily are what Loschi wants to escape.

Replaceable bones.

In Loschi’s exhibition ”What happens in the tower” (Torre Civica di Mestre), he presented his series “B-bones – replaceable bones”, that aims to express his maturity.
“B-bones” are drawn in sheets like the soul’s X Ray. With this work Loschi wants to show a spiritual change from which there is no way back.
“B-bones” is the metaphoric invention of these replaceable bones: we are born with “A Bones “ and after the change we end up with “B Bones”, as a second phase of life.
Inspired by Klee, Loschi wants to show the invisible, our inner side that is changing, and this tough evolution. To express the difficulty of changing he uses several layers of contrasting warm and cold colours ( black, red, orange) to draw huge figures, despite that, he manages to obtaining a compact canvas’ surface.
Loschi combines red and blue (considered by Itten and Kandinsky the most spiritual contrast): red represents change; blue represents meditation. In addition to this Loschi uses mythical symbols, olive and bay leaves, that represent pureness and death.
“B-bones” also aims to show the metamorphosis that is one of the protagonists of Paolo Loschi’s world.

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