This was my first solo show in Milan at galleria Il Vicolo from October the 2nd to November the 15th 2023.
The title of the exhibition, Intimo e Manifesto, represents for Brillarelli that meeting place between private and public, where the images are real intimate dialogues, excerpts of thoughts and explorations of one's own feelings that invite the viewer to reconstruct the stories, make them his own, identify with them, become part of them by appropriating them.
His painting is extremely instinctive and gestural, made of large brush strokes, repetitive signs and small details that bring the gaze into contact with matter and feeling. Suffering, joy, meditation, sex, nature, humor make his painting a liberating and therapeutic act.
Animals become symbols of the crudest human behaviors and fears, plants and flowers are the gardens of the soul, in love or disappointed, turgid and dripping, sensual and provocative.
Notes and thoughts punctuate the figures: sometimes they desecrate them, sometimes they accompany them by describing them. The feeling is of an unfinished work, where each image is in continuous evolution/mutation, where informal/formal, abstraction/figuration, intimate/manifesto dialogue while waiting for answers.
His painting is extremely instinctive and gestural, made of large brush strokes, repetitive signs and small details that bring the gaze into contact with matter and feeling. Suffering, joy, meditation, sex, nature, humor make his painting a liberating and therapeutic act.
Animals become symbols of the crudest human behaviors and fears, plants and flowers are the gardens of the soul, in love or disappointed, turgid and dripping, sensual and provocative.
Notes and thoughts punctuate the figures: sometimes they desecrate them, sometimes they accompany them by describing them. The feeling is of an unfinished work, where each image is in continuous evolution/mutation, where informal/formal, abstraction/figuration, intimate/manifesto dialogue while waiting for answers.
