Dario Agrimi

Dario Agrimi, born in Atri (TE) in 1980, lives and works between Trani and Turin.
He is a professor of painting techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
He creates works with strong conceptual value, characterized by pronounced sarcasm and perceptual disorientation, using a wide range of media, from painting to sculpture, environmental installation, photography, and video. His most recent experiments are the result of an increasingly “maniacal” research in terms of hyperrealistic simulation and reality effects, aiming to amplify the emotional relationship between the observer’s experience and the absurdity of certain exhibited objects. Numerous moral, religious, thanatological, and erotic implications lie at the core of his figurative work.

A continuous path of “aestheticizing the obscene” full of irony and freedom.
Balance is a central theme in the entire series of hyperrealistic sculptures created over the years.
The precarious state of the individual, even in their natural habitat.
Proposing a new perception of the human being placed in a limit or paradoxical condition, captured in a given moment of existence.
The pursuit of a conscious aridity of being, which secretes alienation and negation—“a crack in simplicity,” as defined in an unpublished text.
We live in the history of dust, of the remnants of that original act.
Our world is balanced in a sea of infinity.