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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 47.2 W x 47.2 H x 1 D in
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When the function of the painting portrait was still one of rapresentation and commemoration, the model was had to sit for days and days, for months on end, and naturally the model was “different” in each new sitting. The painting was a kind of sublimated synthesis of what the painter each time found in front of him. Photography has engendered the concept of “instant”. The photographic portrait, no matter how elaborately produced, always captures the image in an instant. I recall a conversation between David Sylvester and Francis Bacon: D.S.: In the last few years, if it’s occurred to you to do a portait of someone, you commission photographs of them. F.B.: Yes, I would ask the same of friends if they came to sit. I prefer working this way. If I have the presence of the image there, I’m not able to drift so freely. D.S.: Why are memories more interesting and why does someone bother you? F.B.: What I want to do is to distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance. Bacon worked with photography. From varied range of photos of his subjet he produced the portrait. Of course, it was not “realistic” but, as Bacon puts it, “distorsed”. I took a roll of 36 photos of a Venezuelan friend, a transexual prostitute of whom I’m deeply fond, for many different reasons. The shots were taken in rapid sequence in a matter of minutes. The six selected images, from which I made the six portrait, document the emotional tension of the photographic set, throught the expressive sequence and increasing distortion. As if from the light to the darkness. Or from life to death. The canvases are titled, each with a syllable from the word: “TRA - SFI - GU - RA - ZIO - NE”. Six syllables.
Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:47.2 W x 47.2 H x 1 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Spain.
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Sandro Colbertaldo was born in Padua (Italy) on 1946. He come from an old family, belonging to the intellectual class of the Serenissima Republic, which members, at the end of the XV century, moved from Venice to the town of Asolo, following the court of the Queen Caterina Corner, who became overthere one of the more fervid patron of the Literature and Art of the Venetian Renaissance. Sandro spent his childhodd in Venice and he will carry the enchantement of that incredible architectural invention along all his life. His family moved to Milan on 1954. That will be his own town during all the youth and the maturity. He moved to Barcelona on 1998, when he meet Anna, his third wife. On 2002 they move from Barcelona to Cruïlles, a small Medieval village of the Baix Empordá (Costa Brava), where they are still living.
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