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Drawing, Colored Pencil on Paper
Size: 47.2 W x 23.6 H x 0.1 D in
Eat or Beaten is a diptych colored pencils on paper, and it portrays the most important two chess pleces, the king and the queen. Both are drawn on square size paper as a reterence to the chessboard where they move. The source of Eat or Beaten is a consideration about the limits and bonds between lover and enemy, love and death, harmony and destruction, and about the innate fragility of every relation, which the artist recalls by choosing as a subject chess pieces made of colored glass. King and queen are chosen and represented through complementary colors, blue and orange, which seem evoking hostility and mutual destruction; nevertheless they come in pairs, side by side, and full of a mutual attraction which makes the dilemma unsolvable.
Drawing:Colored Pencil on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:47.2 W x 23.6 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Born in 1996 in Milan, Italy. Representative Gallery - Punto Sull'Arte Gallery, Varese (IT). Valentina Diena’s work, which is mainly characterized by the technique of hyperrealism pencil on paper, contains the constant research of a mystical and also anthropological meaning in all those consumer goods that fill and decorate our everyday life. The artist searches and analyzes these objects as endless tiles of a single puzzle, the one of our collective memory but also of our contemporary identity, and then portray them through a thorough and detailed hyperrealism colored pencils on paper. In her drawings, the fetishization of the consumer good bumps into the very denial of the industrial product, a slow and strenuous technical process and a strong conceptual charge. The ambivalences that are typical of her research (picture - drawing, main character - walk on, appearance - meaning) direct the gaze to an endless research, while the use of colored pencils recovers and keeps alive the bond with a creative child experience that is shared and familiar to each of us.
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