The "Incontro Lampo" event, promoted by the Daniele Comelli Art Gallery, which celebrated the collaboration between Daniele Oldani and Marco Tamburro, has just concluded. This extraordinary exhibition was hosted inside the renowned Lampo, at Scalo Farini in Milan. The industrial and urban setting that served as the backdrop for this exhibition proved to be perfect. The empty and dilapidated warehouse was transformed into a studio and art gallery.
In the days leading up to the event, the two artists gathered in this space to create ten joint works, in addition to one completed live during the event. Paintbrushes, spray cans, splashes of paint on the walls, palettes with dried paint, crumpled paper towels stained with paint, and glasses with faded colored liquids transformed the sterile space into a vibrant creative studio.
Marco Tamburro and Daniele Oldani, united by a need to express themselves through art, despite their very different stylistic approaches, have successfully combined two opposing pictorial styles with harmony and fluidity. On the one hand, Tamburro's intense and rapid brushstrokes, which explore the anxieties and disenchantment of human beings living in the metropolis; on the other, Oldani's pop imagery, rich in social irony. The fusion of Rome and Milan has given rise to artworks that fully reflect the vision of the two artists.
Themes related to society, religion, and war are addressed by the two with clarity and irony. Pictorial elements that characterize such different visions have managed to form a dynamic and coherent connection.
The unusual atelier also served as an exhibition space, welcoming numerous collectors eager to admire the artworks resulting from the collaboration between Oldani and Tamburro. But, above all, they were eager to witness their live performance: the completion of a 230x190 cm canvas. Spectators were able to observe the application, within the same painting, of the two artists' very distinct approaches.
The live work, "Urban Jungle," perfectly embodies the fusion of Marco Tamburro and Daniele Oldani's two pictorial styles. At the center of the composition is a contemporary Tarzan moving among urban vines, a symbol of a metropolitan jungle. This new Tarzan, living and adapting to modern cities, is depicted in Oldani's trademark comic-book and ironic style, while the surrounding urban landscape is rendered through Tamburro's iconic pictorial language. The work thus successfully unites two seemingly contrasting artistic visions in a truly harmonious synthesis.
The cold, bare walls of the warehouse were adorned with paintings by DAMA (Daniele and Marco). The two artists succeeded in the challenging task of combining their styles and transforming a desolate space into a perfect exhibition space.
