Meloniski Biography
Meloniski (1943 - ) was born in Villacidro in 1943. Completely self-taught, the Sardinian artist moved to Paris in 1969, then to Milan. Travel throughout Europe and visit the most important museums to study the classics and avant-gardes. He currently lives and works in the Lodi area where Meloniski dedicates himself mainly to sculpture in marble, bronze and wood, in parallel with painting and ceramics. Close to organic impulses, to the instincts of tactility, Meloniski has developed the three tracks of his research: sculpture, ceramics and painting. His sculpture was the knowledge of stone, wood and metal (the three elements of the earth); his ceramics exercised the plastic sense on soft and transmutative matter (water and fire); finally, his painting involved the development of a mixed technique entirely based on the expressiveness of color (air). Meloniski da Villacidro's paintings evoke dreamy atmospheres, in which reality is transfigured into a surrealist fairytale scenario: characters float in the sky playing their instruments, fish sail through sleeping cities, kites soar among the stars. Since 1991 Meloniski has felt the need to take a break from sculpture; lighter materials, possibilities for play and inventions. The subject led him to use soft handmade paper supports. Here is the acrylic, the tempera, the inks. We are faced with a well-distilled sensorial "patchwork". This is the condition for the perceptual concept to express the emotional factor. The magic of myth.
