Afran. The envelope

Headline: Afran. The envelope
Artist: Afran
Texts: Angela Madesani, Afran
Language: Italian, English
Translations: Wendy Louise Ruggeri
Release date: 22/11/2017
ISBN: 978-88-6057-384-1
Format: ebook (PDF)
Pages: 48
Price: free download

Catalog of the personal exhibition “Afran. envelope”, 8 November – 25 November 2017, MA-EC by Present Contemporary Art, Milan.

[…] His sculptures are made of a material that we could define as global, pop, used all over the world, at all ages, as if it were a uniform: pieces of jeans complete with seams that look like surgical sutures. The artist is fascinated by the anatomical dimension of the sculpture, so much so that his works in which it is an alternation of solids and voids, some myological structures could appear summarily. […]
His is a research of a social matrix, who makes no forward-thinking statements, it does not need to represent. Rather work through metaphors, symbols. The reference to its history, to its origin from Equatorial Africa, as already mentioned, it is intrinsic in all of his work, but his interest is above all in man, of his attitude, of his behavior, beyond the color of his skin. […]

[Based on the text by Angela Madesani]