Impermanence of everything

I think a lot at night, when all impressions and feelings of the day fade and I finally calm down. Memories and experiences come to me in their essence. The night pampers and protects but also hides monsters and fears. My fear of being imprisoned by hierarchies of power, of being spiritually diminished by religion, of being ethnically or gender discriminated. These feelings tangle and interwine into intricate patterns and shapes, atmospheres, faces, bodies, spaces and emptiness. “Empty nights, full of drums that suddenly pass by. But the Moon tunes each whimper in silence” (Sandro Penna, 1977).

I deconstruct and reconstruct bodies, nature, buildings, machines and history trying to understand the World around me. I process memories of everything I heard, said, thought, read, touched, smelled, made and destroyed. I digest and absorb experiences of life, travels, encounters, successes and setbacks to make them deeply mine. I play with perishable materials, because I feel everything is impermanent.
My concerns about the future become destroyed natural habitats made of plastic and steel. A nightmare of tree trunks of recycled plastic bottles standing under leave canopies and sky of cut plastic sheets, like in my installation “#Surrogate_Nature”. My need of spiritual depth becomes a sacred place for a non-religious hearth, a temple to Gods made of paper and cardboard. I dream of a room with paper walls facing a rocky garden lit by an eclipsed Sun made of egg cartons, like in my installation “#Surprising_Choices”. Sometimes shapes and colors stay, sometimes they disappear at dawn to remind me once again that everything is not to stay.

Flavio Monte Lanaro 04-07-2025

What is Art for me? Such a draining struggle to understand. Maybe it is a process of assimilation of everything I have experienced in my life.

First is the visual and sensorial part. Nature, art, surroundings, architecture, engineering, objects from everyday life... Everything… Lights, colours, tastes, smells, sounds, bodies, faces, surfaces, shapes, patterns, vibrations, reflections.

Second come feelings for all people that love me and I love, that I have loved, that have cared for me and helped me, that I have betrayed and have betrayed me, for all people I never cared for and for those that I only met once…

The filter I apply is my subconsciousness. Feelings, memories and experiences are suffered, analysed, dreamed and then forgotten. They return to me in a physical way that is conveyed through my eyes, hands, arms, chest, muscles and nerves.

That is why the process is so painful but liberating.

Flavio Monte Lanaro, 22-03-2020

2019-09-18

Konstrundan på Kungsholmen, 2019.

2019-06-26

Och så har en till utställning, #Burning Platform, varit...
Jag känner mig lite dränerad på energi men
ändå full av motivation till nästa!
Tack alla besökare!
Titta gärna på de nya verken!

And so another exhibition, #BurningPlatform, went…
I feel a bit drained of energy but at the same time
very motivated to continue to the next!
Thank you to all the visitors!
Please have a look at the new pieces!

2019-03-18

Jag arbetar som en galning på verken till min utställning första vecka i juni!
Håll uppsikt över inbjudan som kommer ut snart!

I am working like crazy on the pieces to be shown at my coming exhibition the first week in June.
Keep on eye on the news!

2018-09-18

Jag har upptäckt jag gillar prata om min konst. Det finns så mycket
som i det medvetna jag inte vet om det. Allt kommer ut när jag försöker
förklara vad jag gör. Tack till alla er som kommer till mina utställningar
och stimulerar min fantasi med era frågor!

I like to talk to people about my art.
There is so much more about it
than what I consciously know. It all comes out when I try to explain it.
Thanks to everybody coming to my exhibitions and stimulating my
imagination with your questions!

2018-09-15

Konstrundan på Kungsholmen 2018 i Stockholm,
15-16 september 2018.

The Art Circuit at Kungsholmen 2018 in Stockholm,
15 to 16 September 2018.

2018-08-27

Tack till alla som besökte min utställning eller som tittade på den på nätet!
Mycket givande samtal, värdefulla tipps och uppmuntrande kommentarer! Helt otroligt!
Jag redan längtar efter att få ställa ut igen!

Vi ses på Konstrundan på Kungsholmen, 15-16 september 2018!
http://12broar.wixsite.com/12broar

Thank you for coming to my exhibition or for watching it on the web!
Very interesting conversations, priceless suggestions and lots of supporting comments! Amazingly giving experience!
I am already looking forwards to my next exhibition!

See you at the Kungsholmen Art Circuit, 15-16 September 2018!
http://12broar.wixsite.com/12broar

2018-08-17

Idag är det vernissage! Spännande!!

Today is the vernissage! Looking
forward to it!

2018-08-05

Kommande utställning på Galleri WBL,
S:t Eriksgatan 9 i Stockholm!
"WILL BE FOREVER"
Välkommen till vernissagen den 17 augusti 2018, kl 16-20 och
till den fortsatta utställningen från den 18 till den 25 augusti, kl 12-18!

Coming exhibition at Gallery WBL,
Sankt Eriksgatan 9, Stockholm!
"WILL BE FOREVER"
Welcome to the vernissage on 17 August 2018, 16-20 hours, and to
the following exhibition between 18 to 25 August, 12-18 hours!

www.konst.se/konstverk/75562

2017-12-06

Kolla gärna mitt Instagramkonto!
Check my Instagram account!

www.instagram.com/flaviomontelanaro

Tack/Thanks

2017-08-03

SVE

Äntligen tog jag mig i kragen och skrev något nytt till min presentation.
Jag gillar inga mossiga beskrivningar eller gamla betyg.
Allt ska vara pinfärskt.
Jag skapar av frustration för att jag inte är bäst i världen… jag kommer inte att bli det…
Allt jag skapar kommer ur min kropp utan att jag förstår varför.
Men det är en lång mognadsprocess. Det gör ont.
Och det tar tid att smälta intrycken nu att allt omkring mig går i ljusets hastighet.

född 1968
verksam i Stockholm

ENG
At last I got a grip on myself and wrote something new to my presentation.
I don’t like any fuzzy descriptions or old grades.
Everything should be fresh.
I’m frustrating because I’m not the best in the world ... I won’t be near it ...
Everything I create comes through my body without I understand why.
But it’s a long process. It hurts.
And it takes time to melt all the impressions today when everything around me goes at the speed of light.

born in 1968
active in Stockholm

Utställningar
• Soloutställning, #I_Wake_Up_In_The_Morning_And_I_Am_Alive, 2025, @GalleriHornsgatan96, Stockholm
• Konstrundan på Kungsholmen 2025, @MariaWesterbergDesign, Stockholm
• Soloutställning #Summer_Is_Here, @GalleriHornsgatan96, 2025, Stockholm
• Vårutställning, @Gerlesborgsskolan, 2025, Lidingö
• Utställning #Reacting_on_Acting_And_Other_Feelings, 2025, @Gerlesborgsskolan, Lidingö
• Utställning #Impermanence_Of_Everything, 2025, @Gerlesborgsskolan, Lidingö
• Konstrundan på Kungsholmen 2022, S:t Göransgymnasium, Stockholm
• Konstrundan på Kungsholmen 2019, Marriott Courtyard Hotel, Stockholm
• Soloutställning #BurningPlatform på Galleri WBL, Stockholm, @woobocklee, 2019-06-01 till -08
• Konstrundan på Kungsholmen 2018, Marriott Courtyard Hotel, Stockholm
• Soloutställning "Will Be Forever" på Galleri WBL, Stockholm, @woobocklee,
2018-08-17 till -08-25
• Soloutställning "Gravity Is My Enemy" på Galleri WBL, Stockholm, @woobocklee, 2017-06-02 till -06-11
• Outdoor Installation "What?", Wivelliusgatan, Stockholm, 2017-03-28
• Outdoor Installation "Empowered", Hornbergsstrand, Stockholm, 2016-10-23
• Edsvik Art Fair 2016, monter nr Ö:18 "Flavio & Nasrin" med konstnären Nasrin Taghizadeh
• Edsvik Höstsalong 2015, verk nr 92 "Moon Mountain"
• Outdoor Installation "Suddenly you are in my dream", Sankt Eriksterrassen, Stockholm,
2014-10-08
• Outdoor Installation "Accumulation of dreams", Kronobergsparken, Stockholm, 2012-10-17