“Who is in?” – Andrea Failla

Andrea Failla’s artistic sensibility has expressed itself over the years through various forms: his experience in theatre as an actor, director, voice actor and founder of Mālamundi Teatri all converge in his painterly expression.
Failla was born in Milan in 1966 and, in his small studio tucked under the stairs of a building, has been pursuing his pictorial research for nearly two decades.
His works are citations, references to invisible worlds, dreams, visions, splashes of colour and signs, all aimed at awakening meditative states of mind.
Long fascinated by the cosmic-anthropological cycle, his works explore evolutionary transitions and the connections between body and soul. In keeping with the finest spiritual symbolist tradition, art serves as the bridge between interiority and universality. Painting takes on the role of a creative and expressive process through which the artist presents his personal vision of the world.
Active observation is called for: standing before Andrea Failla’s paintings, amid echoes and suggestions, questions arise, one explores at a subjective level, allowing oneself to be surprised by evocative emotion — seeking not so much a single meaning, but one among many possible meanings.
The work thus becomes an energy field where symbolic representations and chromatic waves converge.
Through a simplification of images that is never reductive, through unconventional representations, lines, colours and materials find expression in a force, an emotion, a feeling and an intrinsic beauty.
In his works, Andrea Failla succeeds in bringing together a spiritual and cosmic dimension alongside a more earthly one, rooted in human nature. Painting is the medium he uses to step away from everyday life — setting out from his under-stair studio to carry us into the places of his experiences and emotions, and to open us up to our own depths.