The 26 drawings known as Mostri (“Monsters”) are on cardboard, all measuring 35x25 cm, made with wax pastels, markers, ballpoint pens and colored pencils. The references and sources are multiple, from the naive art of the Amazon to Expressionist and Symbolist painting, Cubism, Savinio, Chinese decoration, self-referential signs and utopias. The result is a wide repertoire of images loved by Alessandro Mendini, in a system of encounters, associations and connections, aimed at regenerating and proposing new, original and alternative meanings. This is the historical warehouse to which he is indebted, and that forms the meaning of his visual culture. 

A game of self-control on the part of the artist, given the systematic nature of the support materials, and of the drawings each made in the physical and mental space of about three hours, on the Sunday afternoons  of this year, 2014. Monsters is the title of these figures: since the monster is a grotesque, abnormal, fantastic being, composed of a patchwork of heterogeneous parts, different from each other, capable of prompting indescribable hypotheses of distant narratives.