AFAN Alessandro Fantini
- Will the night ever fall down?
oil on canvas, 25x35 cm. (2018)
The Official Blog of Alessandro Fantini. Memories and prophecies from the vessel of the Flying AFAN.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
AFAN plays DOCTOR FAUSTUS
AFAN plays DOCTOR FAUSTUS
AFAN Alessandro Fantini plays Christopher Marlowe's DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Over his last hour, Doctor Faustus vainly struggles to save his soul from a past of ambition and lust, as he gets closer and closer to the future price he's doomed to pay in the eternity promised by the devil's deal.
Directed and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
Music by AFAN Alessandro FAntini.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Sunday, November 25, 2018
MALORDA at the SELVA NERA FILM FESTIVAL
Alessandro Fantini, versatile artist working in a wide range of artistic expressions, from painting to filmmaking, who had presented the singular science fiction feature film Edonism at the first edition of the Selva Nera film festival, of Italian production but shot entirely in Japan, is back with a short film (excerpted from the seven episodes webseries) always characterized by intelligence and sense of the grotesque, which will appeal to lovers of that branch of the most bizarre fantasy fiction.
Dr. Malorda solves your problems, but be careful what you ask for ...
Stefano Bovi and Massimo Bezzati, founders and directors of the SELVA NERA FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
You Tube premiere of "New York, a venture"
Get ready for the You Tube premiere of my indie movie "New York, a venture" shot in Manhattan and screened at the Dobbs Ferry Movies4movies film festival in 2017.
Share the watch page and make sure to be there tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. (Central European Time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4v09s9pQ4
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
MALORDA - They come in legions
MALORDA
They come in legions
Directed, edited and produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
DRAW IN
DRAW IN (2018)
It will draw you in if you will draw it
Sometime the rugged countryside isn't the ideal place where isolating
yourself from the world (surely not from all the other worlds).
Directed, written, performed, edited and produced by AFAN Alessandro
Fantini.
Music, sound effects and cinematography by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
AFAN PICTURES 2018
Friday, August 31, 2018
TEASER
Teaser (2018)
Directed and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
Music by AFAN Alessandro Fantini
Monday, August 27, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
About untraced artistic paths
My answers to the fineartamerica.com interview:
1. If someone were to film a documentary about your life, how would the story go?
Actually, since my adolescence I started writing a sort of screenplay
of my own life, just like I was aware I was going to shoot it by myself
at a later stage in my existence. Indeed in 2012 I’ve directed a
bio-documentary about my artistic path up until that year.
The opening scenes showed the landscape of the Sangro Valley in Middle
Italy, where I was born and where I currently live. The image of the
Sangro river (from the Spanish word “sangre” meaning “blood”) starting
from the snowy mountains and ending in the Adriatic Sea, is presented as
a metaphor of the inner stream of visions and irrational desires
nurturing my creative quest from childhood to these days. Somehow every
painting, movie, musical composition and novel I’ve created until now
could be defined as a blood cell floating along the mystical side of the
river. Therefore, the topography of the valley could be used as an
allegorical map of my own human and artistic odyssey.
2. What
were your biggest triumphs and challenges? What decisions did you make
that shaped or changed the direction of your life? Who influenced or
mentored you along the way?
To be honest I think that nowadays
the fact of being a creative person is a challenge itself. No one will
take your artistic vocation seriously until you’re able to show that
you’re making a living with it. Maybe the biggest triumph is when you’re
completely free to create without being forced to constantly show or
explain what and why you’re working on certain projects. Choosing to not
become a teacher or a factory employee after graduating with honours to
keep working on my artworks, was the most important and daring decision
I’ve taken in my life (however in Italy is hard to make a career as a
university teacher without the support of a family of teachers or
influent people).
I’ve always been a self-taught artist. Aside of
the lessons of masters such as Vermeer, Dalì, Magritte, Giger, Wyeth,
Kubrick, Bunuel, Lynch, over the years no one influenced or taught me
anything useful. On the contrary, I must thank every art critic or
professional working in the arts and showbiz who tried to convince me
that an artistic career was a colossal waste of time. In a certain
sense, the sheer amount of art I’ve produced over the last two decades
is even the natural feedback to the defeatism surrounding me. It’s like I
need to create an imaginary world where I can find a shelter from the
nihilism and the brutal pragmatism of contemporary society, allowing me
to give an aesthetic interpretation of the latter.
3. Did you pursue your childhood dreams, and are you happy with where your life is at today?
Being an artist means preserving the playful anarchy of the childhood.
Only in this attractive chaos it’s possible to exert the freedom to
create new rules and aesthetic dimensions. Like Nietzsche once wrote, maturity
means rediscovering the seriousness one had as a child at play. The
artistic activity is the better way to preserve it. Though, happiness
isn’t a term relatable to the creative process. For me the main
motivation of an artist life is to constantly challenge the boundaries
of his own “safety zone”. That basically means living in a persistent
yet voluptuous state of prolific anguish.
1. If someone were to film a documentary about your life, how would the story go?
Actually, since my adolescence I started writing a sort of screenplay of my own life, just like I was aware I was going to shoot it by myself at a later stage in my existence. Indeed in 2012 I’ve directed a bio-documentary about my artistic path up until that year. The opening scenes showed the landscape of the Sangro Valley in Middle Italy, where I was born and where I currently live. The image of the Sangro river (from the Spanish word “sangre” meaning “blood”) starting from the snowy mountains and ending in the Adriatic Sea, is presented as a metaphor of the inner stream of visions and irrational desires nurturing my creative quest from childhood to these days. Somehow every painting, movie, musical composition and novel I’ve created until now could be defined as a blood cell floating along the mystical side of the river. Therefore, the topography of the valley could be used as an allegorical map of my own human and artistic odyssey.
2. What were your biggest triumphs and challenges? What decisions did you make that shaped or changed the direction of your life? Who influenced or mentored you along the way?
To be honest I think that nowadays the fact of being a creative person is a challenge itself. No one will take your artistic vocation seriously until you’re able to show that you’re making a living with it. Maybe the biggest triumph is when you’re completely free to create without being forced to constantly show or explain what and why you’re working on certain projects. Choosing to not become a teacher or a factory employee after graduating with honours to keep working on my artworks, was the most important and daring decision I’ve taken in my life (however in Italy is hard to make a career as a university teacher without the support of a family of teachers or influent people).
I’ve always been a self-taught artist. Aside of the lessons of masters such as Vermeer, Dalì, Magritte, Giger, Wyeth, Kubrick, Bunuel, Lynch, over the years no one influenced or taught me anything useful. On the contrary, I must thank every art critic or professional working in the arts and showbiz who tried to convince me that an artistic career was a colossal waste of time. In a certain sense, the sheer amount of art I’ve produced over the last two decades is even the natural feedback to the defeatism surrounding me. It’s like I need to create an imaginary world where I can find a shelter from the nihilism and the brutal pragmatism of contemporary society, allowing me to give an aesthetic interpretation of the latter.
3. Did you pursue your childhood dreams, and are you happy with where your life is at today?
Being an artist means preserving the playful anarchy of the childhood. Only in this attractive chaos it’s possible to exert the freedom to create new rules and aesthetic dimensions. Like Nietzsche once wrote, maturity means rediscovering the seriousness one had as a child at play. The artistic activity is the better way to preserve it. Though, happiness isn’t a term relatable to the creative process. For me the main motivation of an artist life is to constantly challenge the boundaries of his own “safety zone”. That basically means living in a persistent yet voluptuous state of prolific anguish.
Friday, August 10, 2018
Glair Boat
Glair Boat (from the album "Trinity of Dementia")
The inspiration for the song "Glair boat" came from my childhood memories of an ancient Italian tradition consisting in putting the glair of an egg into a glass jar full of water during the night between 28th and 29th June. "The Saint Peter's boat" is the name given to the final shape taken by the glair in the early morning. According to the popular belief Saint Peter blows in the jar shaping the glair in the likeness of a vessel. It was then possible to forecast the agrarian vintage or the child's future by observing the inclination of the sails. In my song I describe the singular case of a community attempting to sail a river by a giant glair ship doomed to sink, until a child decides to reach the estuary aboard his own little boat.
Exile of Kelpie
AFAN alessandro Fantini
Exile of Kelpie (Water power trance)
Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm (2018)
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
TRINITY OF DEMENTIA out now
"They know nothing at all, yet profess to know everything. They are ignorant even of themselves, and are often too absent minded or near sighted to see the ditch or stone in front of them".
Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
Over thousands of years human madness has taken many forms, but only the 21st century has brought the most insane combination of them: cyber-egotism, cyber-ignorance and cyber-greediness aka the Trinity of Dementia.
Conceived, composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Lyrics, vocals and effects by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Cover art by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Trinity of Dementia is out now on Spotify and Deezer.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Saturday, April 14, 2018
IGNORANCID
AFAN Alessandro Fantini
IGNORANCID
The music video of the new single "Ignorancid" from the upcoming AFAN's concept album.
Directed, animated and edited by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Music, lyrics and vocals by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Music, lyrics and vocals by AFAN Alessandro Fantini.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Nephesh (stronghold of the zonedout)
Nephesh -. Stronghold of zonedout, oil on canvas, 60x40 cm. (2018)
Thursday, February 8, 2018
AFANzine - Pre-Raphaelites
AFANzine - Art as told by AFAN Alessandro Fantini Pre-Raphaelites In 1848 three friends started the most revolutionary "reactionary" movement in the history of Art: the “Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood”, inspired by the bright simplicity and linear purity of Medieval art and Italian painting before the mannerist style developed after Raphael.
Between video-magazine and documentary, informative program and video-art, in this series conceived and produced for the web, the multimedianic artist AFAN Alessandro Fantini browses the art currents and the artists who have contributed to its aesthetic training over the years, affecting the development of his personal multi-faceted approach to creativity.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Monday, January 1, 2018
AFAN 25
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of AFAN Alessandro Fantini's relentless
painting journey (to be celebrated in an upcoming multimedianic
retrospective).
AFAN 25 (a quarter-century with AFAN's paintings)
Conceived and edited by AFAN.
Music composed by AFAN (excerpts from "Antalgica" and "Gorgonia"
albums).
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