HAIR
“The faces recurring in my imagination don’t have features, but colors…”, 2023.
“Hair” is the new production by Flavio Lucchini, created between September 2022 and May 2023. It is a series of one hundred… non-portraits, if anything of faces, in which color - but also the graphic clarity of black and white - intentionally replaces the detailed definition of the features. The works are made according to a technique articulated in three distinct phases: the elaboration of the sketch with various techniques (pencil, ink, pastel, wax crayon, watercolor, etc.), the transposition onto art canvas and, lastly, the finishing in the form of interventions of acrylic colors and/or transparent varnish. Flavio Lucchini explains: “… they are ordinary women who passed by me, colleagues, models, editors, creatives, friends… whose physical features I don't want to remember, but the colors, the perfume, the essence. A few brushstrokes, which stimulate the memory of contemporary faces running towards the future, but also of many works of art that I loved". "Hair" is completed with two artists' armchairs, totally handmade, produced by Rubelli Casa as part of the "Vision 47" project, conceived by product designers Paolo Emanuele Nava and Luca Maria Arosio and personalized by Lucchini as if they were two other non-portraits: two dark, large, deep, attentive female eyes, accentuated by a mass of equally dark hair that falls free alongside an imaginary face. Everything is hand-painted directly on the natural fabric of the cylindrical-shaped furnishing elements with modular seats.