(…) In the art of Franco Accursio Gulino, ideas overlap and figures intertwine in an exuberant interplay of references, moving back and forth through time in a pulsation—like the beating of Gulino’s own heart—for Art (with a capital A).
Day after day, working without interruption, dreams take shape, imprinting themselves onto the canvas and becoming reality, materializing through the characters of his films or his installations. These are reminiscences of past ideas, reworked through tools refined in the present. Ultimately, this is the project we seek to represent: a project as complex as the full understanding of Gulino’s art itself—envelopes containing messages, like bottles cast into the sea of knowledge, holding small painted fragments rendered as only Franco can achieve, through layering, superimposing color upon color in a crescendo of experience and mastery of technique, and of a certain magic in the conception of the work (…)
Stefania Giacchino
As with the reuse of antique doors and pieces of shipwrecks in "Black Friday," there's a redevelopment, but above all a salvage, of trivial objects of limited use, such as advertising materials. Posters, billboards, advertisements, and clothing catalogs become the mediums for Franco Accursio Gulino's painting... The invasion of color and form can emphasize, alter, or destroy the underlying image. What the artist manages to convey is a meaning beyond that defined by the digital image. Even words like "sales," "everything sold out," "below cost" take on a different meaning, and together, synergistically, they alter the referential meaning of the underlying image. (Anthony Francesco Bentivegna).
