SET DESIGN

UFOCINQUE

PAPER PLANES

Matteo “Ufocinque” Capobianco is an artist that comes from urban “space”, and space is what his poetic is about. It’s a space whose planes are dismantled, broken down in layers that multiply the levels of interpretation: he moves from the affirmative practice of writing on city walls and searching for depth through street art paintings, to his imaginary worlds made of paper, an ephemeral, organic material on which to draw fluid vegetal shapes that transfigure the festival spaces and transfix its participants in a suspended, oneiric world of idealised shapes, closer to what is known than what is seen. It’s the allegory of present, the alchemic effort to turn reality into something other, be it through the symbolic codes of writing or the alchemic symbology that hides in vegetation. For Matteo “Ufocinque” Capobianco, art is made out of matter in its purest form, and each sign that is drawn upon it is transformed into the abstraction of a symbol.