Antonio Bokel

Title : Flag - 2021 Acrylic, cut-outs on fabric with iron bar Size : 170x174 cm Antonio Bokel reveals a constant crossing between art and the fabric of urban life, as constituent parts of his symbolic universe. He uses this experience of the city like existential sequences - there he builds his referential space, there he seems to invent a territory, there he intends to constitute an aesthetic and spatial extension in a broader dimension. Its area of intersection there is a capacity for poetic improvisation from the assimilation of the most varied materials and supports, such as enigmatic objects, urban utensils, the insertion of letters, word games or literary fragments, which pass through the murals, on the surfaces of canvases, photographs, sculptures or spatial installations. But it is in his painting that we find the chords of his field of action, indicative of an integrating force of his aesthetic concerns, balancing colors, shapes and volumes in a mosaic of rhythmic brushstrokes that bring out the asymmetries of the world. In this troubled territory, the artist evokes a reflection on contemporary urban space. His artistic production is not an isolated phenomenon in the studio, but it inscribes itself in the world, in a public sphere, by embodying its emergence on the city walls - both simultaneously welcome his pictorial practice and create a fusion between the work and the world.