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During the creation of "Turning Point" At Soyang Lighthouse Museum in South Korea, 2019
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Turning Point Painting

Riccardo Matlakas

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 66.9 W x 35.4 H x 0.7 D in

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As all the paintings of the artist the line has a very important role is Matlakas work. He explains that line follows the rhythm of breathing and it contains life itself. The direction of the line is very important as it intrensectly communicate a certain mood beyond the content of the painting. The artist explains that tracing a line is like a dance and that who watches it can dance with it too. One more observation about the line is that when two or more line crosses each other they create a void and the artist himself is very interested in the void as in the void itself there are hidden the secrets of life such as in the black matter of the space. This painting shows two rows of tanks a little bit like toys, a mass of them facing each other like in a war. In the centre the cannon of the tanks encounter and it’s in that centre that the artist wants our attention to pose. As that centre is the turning point where we can still make decisions. To go further or stop, the point where our consciousness tell us to act upon the bad or the good. It is time to change how society works and war itself it’s something that human kind should one day see as thing of the past. The crowd of tanks for the artist also represent the fact that one day he imagine a world where tanks will not be in use anymore and will be thrown as rubbish or used for other purposes. This painting on canvas is already stretched and ready to Hung, it is unframed, you can decide to hung it like that o get it framed by a professional framer, my advice to you if you are going to frame it it to buy a soft tone, I would usually go with white.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:66.9 W x 35.4 H x 0.7 D in

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Riccardo Matlakas (b.1992, Naples, Italy) is a London based multidisciplinary artist working internationally. He is best known for his multi-talented capacity in different art forms including performance, dance, painting and sculpture. He obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University. Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for the essence of humanity beyond race and custom. The artist often collects relics from his performances which later become objects of memory and contemplation. Riccardo Matlakas has performed and shown his work extensively in Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, South Africa, Iran, Armenia, Russia, Myanmar, Mauritius and South Korea.

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