Perino & vele. Handle with care

In their essentiality, the works of Emiliano and Luca are neither banal nor superficial, and often they pay the price of careless analysis making them too difficult to understand. The duo from Campania invented an original and immediately recognisable language that, though it always uses papier-mâché, it takes on new aspects and evolves over time adapting itself to the changed and changing needs of communication.
"Handle with care" is not only an explicit reference to the intrinsic fragility of papier-mâché, but above all it is a warning to the public, a warning not look at the works of Campania duo superficially, an exhortation to go beyond the material and the technique to reflect on the deeper sense of this mixture of media. From the fragility of papier-mâché - and from the awareness they themselves are fragile - perino & vele set out to reconstruct a different but still possible reality. laid out in thin colourful sheets, kneaded into checkered quilts or coated in resin making them immune to the weather, the papiermâché constructs shapes and condenses meanings, dialogues with the spectator using the spontaneity of the visual language, to communicate a new message, the artists' points of view on society and our times.