Walter Parini, Recycled Trash, Mixed Media on Canvas with Applications, 2009

Walter Carlo Parini was born in Arluno in 1953, an industrious town in the Milanese hinterland.
from an early age he showed a marked propensity for art and painting, passions that led him
to enroll and graduate, with dedication and profit from the Salesian school of graphic arts in Milan,
so much so that in 1969 he was awarded the first national prize for Graphic Education at the GEC. The mul-
tiformous Milanese city, epicenter of the new technical-artistic avant-garde, became part
permanently of his frequentations, giving form and energy to that creative humus that over time concentrates and refines, in a
time concentrates and refines, in a constant innovative reinterpretation, through the aid of techniques
graphic techniques of which he makes a personal use that leads him to free himself from the canons of the time and to prove himself
versatile innovator, both as a freelance graphic designer and as a volcanic artist.

The forms and colors, pivotal points in Parini's production, interpreting the material in an
modular iconography, through a dialectic of continual drawing on and reworking of the life that
pulses around man, place him among the protagonists of the artistic cultural renewal of the
1980s and 1990s: his hyper-material multiples, visionary sculptures and graphic productions break-
no with the concept of anonymous normality, a theme dear to the artist, distancing him from everything that
falls within the canons of commercial circuits, to make him a visionary storyteller capable of ranging from the
trash to the sublime.