ANDREA PAPI

Andrea Papi, a professor at the Academy of Arts and New Technologies in Rome, began his career as a visual designer before transitioning into a concept artist in order to express ideas that were too conceptual for the marketing sector.

Papi’s works are an expression of divergent thinking and a subtle, critical eye on political and social issues. Quoting the author: “[...] art has the important task of transcending the threshold of everyday life, of directing one’s gaze beyond cultural conditioning and looking out onto a panorama free from preconceptions; of restoring the mind to primordial elasticity and training thought to remain free to interpret reality and experience without contamination; of fueling the imagination. [...]”

In fact, Papi’s works often resemble a modern readymade practice in which everyday objects are repurposed, modified, and fused together, or assigned meanings that are typically incongruent with their intended function, thereby challenging the obvious.