I'm not particularly attracted by contemporary art, but I had to change my mind when my friend journalist Pia Bassi, who deals with various topics including, art, science and tourism, knowing my passion for military vehicles, spoke to me of an interesting initiative.
He invited me to see the original works by Marco Tansini, a 21-year-old artist who for the first time presented some of his creations in Milan, at Porta Venezia, to be precise in the “Officina Coviello” exhibition spaces in via Tadino 20.
With a certain curiosity I went to the exhibition and I was able to meet Marco Tansini in person and watch his new "table sculptures" for a long time.
As you can imagine what struck me most is the way in which the young artist, working on old scale models of which he has always been a fierce collector, has managed to convey his passion and, we can say, his "empathy" towards the means of transport, even the most disastrous ones.
By artistically amassing them he has transformed them into expressive sculptures ennobled by golden monochrome paint, which is the hallmark of all his works. In them a careful observer can recognize some models of known military means and not like the tank Leopard, the helicopter Tiger UHT, an American General Motors, a Piaggio Ape tricycle, a Land Rover and so on.
One particular work I like to mention here. It is about Gold Army, a composition in which soldiers and reproductions of war and rescue vehicles are engaged in a bloody battle scene crystallized and valued forever thanks to the golden paint that covers it.
Marco Tansini was born in 1996 in Milan. An avid collector of models, he became an artist thanks to the desire to give new life and expressiveness to the waste material that he had abundantly available. After the success of this first exhibition, it has another one scheduled to be inaugurated in Milan in September at the spaces granted by the municipality in Piazza della Repubblica and named "Ponte degli Artisti", a contemporary art event that will remain open to the public for four months.
