Paolo Troilo exhibited at Galleria Gagliardi from 2008 to 2012.
Mostra personale Il mio nome è Nessuno o, forse, Centomila. Galleria Gagliardi, 2009
Since the mists of time, man has represented himself: in scenes of hunting rudimentary painted on caves, in battle settings in which were told fierce fights, celebrated as an hero at the head of armies or on mighty steeds.
In times of piece: men bent on luxuriant fields of harvest, on boats with full fish nets, in feasts celebrating life.
We can find him in wall frescos, on canvas, carved in marble, chiselled in bronze, immortalised on glossy pages, on photographic films.
Represented in various labours, in the most disparate posing and attitudes, with other women and men or alone, joyful or sad, meditative or vague, portrayed in dances, battles, bacchanals, adventures, loves and deaths.
In self-portraits in which the author proposes himself in a realistic way or in meditated poses.
All of this and more is Man and Life.
What else can we celebrate about this being? Everything has been said, represented, narrated and described.
An Artist may try to report his energy and the physicality expressed, he can seek to investigate in the depth of the inner self, to create a work to tell the split second of the emotion and how the body makes it undisguised.
Differently from other Artists who have self-portrayed themselves during the times giving a face to whom, for years, has represented the others, Troilo hides deliberately his own one, because it is not so important for his aim.
His research examines and analyses the intimate feelings, leaves his body free to move abandoned to the reiterate music.
Swift photo shots immortalise moments. After individualised, recognised and seized the precise moment of his own emotion from the photographic sequence, Troilo sets apart, and lets re-born himself in the pictorial work through his tactile perception.
Without the tool Brush, which otherwise would filter all his sensations, Paolo Troilo contacts the material and, as in a transfer, he himself becomes the material and colour through his very personal instruments: his hands and his fingers.
He is the object of his own painting and at the same time becomes the pictorial subject, but for true, the emotionalism of which leaves memory on the canvas, are universal emotional moments.
So he succeed to give life to bodies moving into the defined space of the canvas, in a choreography without music: subject and object become first characters in an expressive freedom allowing to reveal full truth moments, which disclose the spectator what he decides or wants to see and in which he is able to recognise himself.
Splashes and stains seem to be an underscore of the figure’s movement, but they could be also meant as the depiction of its emitting energy.
This energy could be also caught in the expressive intensity of the contorted features in the effort to set free the body.
If we released our body, as the Artist suggests, from a coercive behaviour imposed by the world and the society that we made ourselves, even our spirit would be free.
In a society requiring a complete attention, otherwise we would be emarginated, perhaps our body, together with our mind, are the only and unique truths in which we can take refuge.
Only in ourselves we can meet the propelling strength that motivates us to live intensively and entirely our life.
Isabella Del Guerra, Aprile 2009
Paolo Antonio Troilo in 1972
Around the age of 6 Troilo already shows a great talent for drawing and thanks to this, just as early, he begins to prepare the tables of pathological anatomy that his father, anesthetist, commissions him for the medical congresses.
He studied at the IED in Rome and at the University of Florence (Architecture and Literature) without completing any of these courses.
From 1997 to 2009 he worked in two of the most famous advertising agencies in the world: Saatchi & Saatchi and Arnold Worldwide.
Nominated Best Italian Creative Director in 2007.
(Grand Prix of Art Directors Club Italy)
In April 2004 he approaches self-taught painting, the day he decides to do so he forgets to buy brushes and paints with his fingers, this technique, combined with almost hyper-realistic results, make him a unique artist in the world.
In 2009 he left the "applied art" of advertising to definitively follow pure art.
In 2011, immediately after being selected for the 54th Venice Biennale, he left the Art Galleries with which he collaborated to begin his career as an independent artist and exhibited all over the world thanks to his friendship with international art patrons and foundations.
His works have been exhibited in Milan, Rome, Florence, Palermo, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, San Francisco, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, New York City.
From 1997 to 2009 he worked as an advertising creative at Saatchi&Saatchi first and then at Arnold Worldwide Italy (creative director). He has won all the most prestigious awards in the industry (Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Clio Award). In 2007 he was Grand Prix at the Art-Director's Club. Since 2005 he has devoted himself exclusively to painting.
After taking part in the group show 5+5 generazioni a confronto (2006, Milan, Studio D'Ars), in 2007 he made his debut with his first solo show Conta fino a dieci curated by Luca Beatrice (2007, Milan, Fabbrica Eos) and with the solo show Paolo Troilo in Parma (2007, Galleria Contemporaneamente). In 2008 he exhibited together with Fabio Giampietro in the double solo show Giampietro e Troilo, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini at Spazio Gianni Testoni in Bologna. He also exhibits again in Milan (Paolo Troilo, curated by Samuele Mazza, Visionnaire Design Gallery) and Padua (Conta fino a dieci, Anna Breda Arte Contemporanea).
Again Luca Beatrice curated the Troilo exhibition in 2009 (Milan, Fabbrica Eos); in the same year he exhibited in San Gimignano (Il mio nome è nessuno o forse centomila, Galleria Gagliardi) and Reggio Emilia (Paolo Troilo, Galleria De' Bonis). In 2010 his first solo exhibition in Rome, at Galleria 5 lune, and the Paolo Troilo exhibition at Teatro Selve in Vigone (Turin).
The exhibition project Azioni sees him engaged in 2011 with the solo exhibition curated by Lorenzo Canova at Galleria Russo in Rome and with the solo exhibition at Galleria Gagliardi in San Gimignano. Again in 2011 he exhibited at Palazzo Antonori in Florence while the exhibition Troilo, Reazioni was curated by Mattia Zappile at Galleria Fabbrica Eos in Milan.
In 2011 he was among the artists participating in the 54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi (Venice) and in 2012 he took part in the LVII National Exhibition Premio Città di Termoli 2012, curated by Lorenzo Canova.
In recent years she has also taken part in several important group exhibitions: Nelle mani (2008, Milan, Mondo Arte Gallery), Bianco & Nero (2008, Reggio Emilia, Studio De Bonis), Contemporary Life (2009, Marciana, IF Art Gallery), SwingArt (2009, Opera, Golf Club Le Rovedine), Pensiero Fluido (2010, Milan, Spazio Oberdan, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini), Stanze d'Artista (2012, Rome, Galleria Russo and Biblioteca Angelica, Galleria Angelica).
He has also exhibited in the most important national and international fairs: Mi Art (2007, 2008, 2009), Art Verona (2008), ArteFiera Bologna (2010), Miami Art Basel (2008), Sawb Barcelona (2012).Il mio nome è nessuno o, forse, centomila.
Since the mists of time, man has represented himself: in scenes of hunting rudimentary painted on caves, in battle settings in which were told fierce fights, celebrated as an hero at the head of armies or on mighty steeds. In times of piece: men bent on luxuriant fields of harvest, on boats with full fish nets, in feasts celebrating life. We can find him in wall frescos, on canvas, carved in marble, chiselled in bronze, immortalized on glossy pages, on photographic films. Represented in various labours, in the most disparate posing and attitudes, with other women and men or alone, joyful or sad, meditative or vague, portrayed in dances, battles, bacchanals, adventures, loves and deaths. In self-portraits in which the author proposes himself in a realistic way or in meditated poses. All of this and more is Man and Life. "Without the Brush tool, which otherwise would filter all his sensations, Paolo Troilo contacts the material and, as in a transfer, he himself becomes the material and the colour. A gesture speed, an impulsive pictorial act so that the immediacy of the emotive involvement does not get lost. He is the object of his own painting and at the same time becomes the pictorial subject, but for true, the emotionalism of which leaves memory on the canvas, are universal frames of mind. An intense relation with the canvas, as it represent the other side of Troilo, the mirror world in which the transfer materializes and where the moment changes to emotion. So he succeed to give life to bodies moving into the defined space of the canvas, in a choreography without music: subject and object become first characters in an expressive freedom allowing to reveal full truth acts, which disclose the spectator what he decides or wants to see and in which he is able to recognize himself. Splashes and stains seem to be an underscore of the figure's movement, but they could be also meant as the depiction of its emitting energy. This energy could be also caught in the expressive intensity of the contorted features in the effort to set free the body.
Isabella Del Guerra 2009
2014
Humans among aliens Singapore curated Pupi Avati
Rome solo show curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
2013
San Francisco USA the US debut
curated by Luca Beatrice
Los Angeles USA solo exhibition
Troilo at riklis hall - TelAviv-
curated by Daniella Talmor former chief curator of the Museum of Hifa
2011
Troilo at Palazzo Antinori Firenze - Florence
solo show - curated by Patrizia Nitti former director of the Maillol Museum Paris
AZIONI
San Gimignano
From 09/07/2011 to 31/08/2011
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IL MIO NOME E' NESSUNO O, FORSE, CENTOMILA
San Gimignano
From 13/06/09 to 28/06/09
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