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Andrea Romano, born in 1984 - Milan, Italy. Education: 2010 BA in Visual Arts. Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Andrea Romano’s practice explores artworks and its role, it investigates the relational space existing between the object on display and the viewer’s gaze hunting for its possible truthfulness and nature. Drawings are simple and ambiguous, surfaces whose borders and boundaries are hardly decipherable as in the last works series belonging to the Highlight (2011-ongoin) one, where the artist investigates the contemporary material landscape transformation through the production of abstract sculptures. The permanent tension and attention toward brand new products and material high technologies by Andrea Romano is a study of the reality through surfaces. If in 2013 sculptures belonging to the Highlight (Summer 2013) series were metal tongues in torsion treated with new production paints, on show in Paris Romano presents Cocoons (Highlight 2015). Using the recent production of slate “in folios”, the artist compose new objects, almost alien sculptures starting from a material apparently common. The slate – a sedimentary rock – becomes a very thin and light layer so that to be able to be folded toward the geometry of a sphere, hand-sewn as fabric and crossed by a rope. The spheres necklace-like are archaic and future object at the same time realized using highly sophisticated materials – almost beyond the breaking point – and raw technologies, mundane chords and middle-class interior atmosphere ropes. As light bourgeois jewels and futurist heavy archeology, the Cocoons (Highlight 2015) pieces are inhabiting in a disquieting way a space between truth and lies, common objects and undecipherable shapes appeared enigmatically on the scene.