Massimiliano Zaffino
Massimiliano Zaffino was born in Chiavari (GE) in 1976, where he lives and works.
Obtained the diploma of Master of Art at the Art Institute of Chiavari, he enrolled at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa. In the same period, attracted by comics, begins a short period in the studio of the cartoonist Renzo Calegari, great master, who decides to make him color some bolt pages, which is for him the first real contact with color.
The real change and the decision to investigate painting were born, however, during the academic years which are precisely a springboard for what will then be the definitive choice.
In the first phase his work is inspired by photographic cuts with images of ordinary life. This leads him to an enlightened painting whose main purpose is the relationship between traditional hyperrealist painting and the image "tout court". His first solo shows at Guidi&Schoen and Annovi Contemporary Art (2006-2008) which are edited respectively by Maurizio Sciaccaluga and Beatrice Buscaroli represent for his training and the study of the image what has today become his linguistic autonomy.
In 2012 he is invited to present his work at the VAF Foundation Award (Current positions of Italian art) where he dialogues with emerging artists.
In his most recent works, research leads him to works that create a link with an apparent reality, establishing a familiar visual channel within the pictorial frame. The bucolic/rural visions, reread, they point to a mystery to be unraveled with the game of two parallel worlds without time or history.
Today his research continues and is well described by Massimo Pamio: «he is a constructivist metaphysician who indulges in imitations of nature in modern ways, alienating. An illusionist who hides behind the glass of reality".
