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Already winner of the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" award for digital art with a second place in 2015 and a special mention in 2017, Veronese artist Andrea Prandi participates in the XV Florence Biennale as Guest of Honour with the installation "Life >< Line," which focuses on the experience of a consciousness seeking to experience itself as a line that is born, grows, and continually mutates through different evolutionary dimensions. Its path, from the beginning, forks into two lines, both sides of the same coin: one pursues rational thought, defined by the empirical logic of experience; the other, emotional thought, which vibrates through interconnected sensations and emotions. Like a human being, the line cannot escape the passage of time and the succession of events, but it is when faced with the responsibility of choosing which crossroads to take that inexhaustible possible scenarios emerge.

Born in 1979 in Verona, Italy, Andrea Prandi graduated from the G.B. Cignaroli Fine Arts Academy in Verona, where he studied painting, decorative arts, and anatomical drawing. Afterwards, he spent several years working closely with Professor Giorgio Scarato — an internationally recognised illustrator and faculty member at the Cignaroli Academy. Prandi’s early work focused on pop-culture-inspired experiments that blended installation and painting, while his more recent practice — at the intersection of art and science — explores the mysteries of the cosmos.

Since 2011, Prandi has exhibited his work in numerous solo exhibitions, art fairs, museums, galleries, and historic venues both in Italy and abroad, in cities such as Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Miami, New York, and Dubai. Notable exhibitions include the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017), Art Expo New York (2017), Art Thessaloniki International Fair (2019), Expo Dubai (2020), and Art Miami (2023), among others.

LIFE >< LINE: THE LIFE OF A LINE IN A MAN'S MIND

Comprising sculptures, digital art, video art, and installations, “Life >< Line” is a series of projects that Prandi debuted in 2022 during the official events of Expo Dubai, followed by Art Miami in the next year and Milano Scultura in 2024.

The signature labyrinthine lines, introduced by Prandi in 2017 at the Pall Mall Gallery in London, recur throughout this series as a synthesis of thought vibrations and a distinctive visual language reflecting on the deeper meaning of human existence. Through the constantly evolving and deforming labyrinthine lines, Prandi delves into the concept of “dualism.”

His “Paradox: Egg >< Hen” (2021) in the “Dual Sculpture Collection”, for example, is formed by a single ovoid form — half black marble, half white — cleanly split down the middle. Its exposed interior surfaces are intricately engraved with labyrinthine patterns composed of interwoven white and black lines; on one side, the lines form an image of an egg, while on the other, they depict a chicken embryo. Based on the duality inherent in the sculpture itself, Prandi demonstrates visually the idea that every element contains an internal division, splitting it into two perfectly equal but opposite parts, thus creating a delicate equilibrium. Like nature itself, this dual force embodies both creation and destruction — the power that generates life and the force that ends it. At the core of every element lies an unavoidable paradox. It is up to us to accept the flip side of everything: “Which came first: the chicken or the egg?”

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