BLURRED

We are not super heroes is the battle cry of the characters of Paolo Migliazza, a young Calabrian artist who in his sculptures immortalizes all the disenchantment of a hyper-technological generation, butwho is unable to outline his future, living in a situation of constant uncertainty, as he explains to me when I ask him where all that melancholy that reverberates in his works comes from: "Belonging to a generation to which, to a large extent, they have been given 'super powers' – just think of the technological process of the last twenty years – 'We are not super Heroes' sounds like a negation, that is, a stance that represents an attempt to express something that goes beyond the apparent datum and the superstructures that society imposes on us in the process of growth". What better image, then, than that of children or pre-adolescents who claim not to be superheroes? The disillusionment of a generation, his, who grew up with Super Mario and the X-Men; a generation that recognizes the failure of a promise that will never be fulfilled. "Without the unrealistic pretense of a sociological or political analysis," he explains, "this title encompasses a need for self-determination and self-awareness that today I consider as the only viable way to generate authentic visions in accordance with what surrounds us." "Inevitably," he adds, "this imposes a reflective dimension such as to generate a space that I would define as metaphysical, in which melancholy is understood as a circular emotional state that in some moments forces immobility. The reaction that derives from this is the need to ask ourselves questions about the world and our being in the world. An immobility therefore that becomes a perspective cone, a trigger that in the work translates into the expressiveness that I restore to the sculptures. A nebulous body, in which the state of certainty is not contemplated and the constant metamorphosis appears as a vertigo that is itself the meaning of the work".

Nicola Maggi