Andrea
Musto
Multifaceted artist
Contact amusto1969@gmail.com
instagram @andrea.musto
Andrea begins his journey in the art world many years ago as a portrait ​and cartoonist at a young age. After finishing his studies he perfects ​himself in different painting and sculptural techniques. He earns ​meanwhile as a satirical cartoonist, painter on glass and then moves on to ​different types of materials. He immediately prefers the canvas and then ​also approaches sculpture. In 2017, although reluctant, he was persuaded ​to enter the circuit of art galleries between Milan, Padua and Venice. He ​has gone as far as Palermo and he participated in several international art ​fairs: his works has been exhibited in Basel and Munich. In the same time ​he strenghtens his relationship with Milan art world. He has been included ​in several art catalogs and his name and his works has been appreciated ​for the raw truth that makes you think about life and for the strong visual ​impact. In 2023 he participated at QIAF, the Qatar international art fair. In ​his artworks he represents the daily life, anxieties, fears, joys, epochal ​events that mark our time, hoping to bring reflections on possible changes ​in the human soul towards constructive social relationships.
BORN IN 1969 IN NAPOLI, HE IS
A MULTIFACETED ARTIST DEVOTED TO
MATERIAL CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTIONISM. HE BEGAN HIS JOUTNEY IN THE ART WORLD AS
A SATIRICAL CARTOONIST AND DECORATOR ON GLASS. THEN HE APPROCED THE CANVAS
EXPERIMENTING WITH ACRYLIC TECHNIQUES AND
DIFFERENT MATERIALS. HIS WORKS
SHOW GLIMPSES OF THE
DAILY LIFE IN A STRONG WAY, TO PROVOKE DEEPLY REFLECTION ABOUT LIFE
Enslave
Mixed media 35x120x4cm
There is no well-being without exploitatio​n
Hikikomori
Mixed media 45x45x30cm
With an estimated 1.5 million cases worldwide, the Hikikomori are mostly men, between 13 and 45 years old: another social emergency...
Solitudes
Mixed media 100x150x4cm
We all have our own corner of pain where we fight our anxieties in solitude
Smombie
Mixed media 100x100x4cm
Smombie: they are all those who now walk down the street without ever taking their eyes off their smartphone like zombies
Einstein docet
Mixed media 120x35x4cm
A mad genius or a brilliant madness, yet his vision is so uptodate: we have to pay homage to Einstein also with art. That’s way I have represented the bodies of men who fight with their bare hands: they don't have technological or sophisticated weapons due to their lust for power...
All eyes
On Rafah
Mixed media 100x100x4cm
All the eyes of the world on the wars, Palestine, Ukraine, and everywhere in the world
She
mixed mediA 120X30X4CM
The feminine universe, made of love, fragility, passion, strength, sexuality
Lovers affairs
Mixed media 120x30x4cm
To love each other, to create indissoluble but extremely fragile unions
Tempus
Fugit
Mixed media 120x30X4CM
Time has always flown away. It brings with it illusions, dreams, desires, fears, leaving lifeless bodies to feed the MOTHER EARTH, who collects and welcomes our remains. We live our time trying to slow it down, the craziest to stop it, the fools to watch it go away, the few to spend it enjoying it.
Artist's Reflection
Mixed media 30x120x4 cm
The reflection of what we see is indelibly imprinted in our minds, even what often escapes us
The dark side
Mixed media 120X30X4CM
We all have a dark side, sometimes conscious, sometimes hidden, so deep that only the evil of living can bring to the surface, no matter how clean you may seem, the latency of evil is a perpetually looming presence
No one is saved alone
Mixed media. 120x30x4​cm
No one is saved without the love or help of ​someone else, we can be saved or save, the ​choice is ours
The human factory
mixed media 120X30X4CM
Men and women who are born in test tubes, parts of the body that can be replaced by mechanical parts, microchips implanted in the brain to walk, see, communicate and then there are thousands of women, men, children who disappear
in the vortive of organ trafficking
Refugees
Mixed media 100X100X4CM
Exiles, fleeing wars...
Mediterranean
Mixed media 100X100X4CM
The sea is life, but due of wars and fugitives it has become a huge cemetery
Compassion
mixed media 200x100x4cm
There is no difference between winners and losers: we are all equal facing death...
Venuses in the mud
MIxed media 120X30X4CM
Women: their courage, their strength, their beauty. They struggle every day in the world, where indifference and abuse are a suffocating slime
Mutual Aid
Mixed media 100x100x4cm
Hands that help other hands, souls that save other souls, with your hands you dig under the rubble, with your hands you bury the victims of war, with your hands you give peace with a caress, with your hands you take lives
The pain inside
Mixed media 100x100X4CM
I'The pain inside us, the evil under the skin, that wears us down, we all have a demon inside that kills us slowly
The Possible Future
Mixed media 100x200x4cm
The use of plastic, without rules, is already a real threat to our future
ME...
Mixed media 100x100x4cm
My subconscious and my conscious in a whirlwind of emotion, fears, passions
NO TIME FOR ALL
Mixed media 60x60x4cm
No there is enough time to dedicate it to everyone and it is never enough what you dedicate to yourself, take your time
The Excluded
Mixed Media 100x100x4cm
The excluded was born with the need to reflect on how much impact can have on the life of an adolescent, to be excluded from the group due to physical defects, skin color, ethnicity, religious belief, sexuality or different gender belonging
Beyond
Mixed media 200x100x4cm
Beyond the perceived light, there is a dark world: in which side do you position yourself?
Anorexia
Mixed media 150x100x4cm
Juvenile anorexia, anxieties and fears hidden behind angelic faces, but the evil is just under the skin
Mother Earth
Mixed media 100X100X4CM
This work encapsulates the symbolic meaning of my vision of Mother Earth, the generator of life, and shelter after death
Mom
Mixed media 100X100X4CM
Maternal love, incomparable, indissoluble bond that binds a mother to her children from birth, but there is also castrating love, the one that controls you, limits you, decides for you