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An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm.

In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web.

Summary of features:
Artist: Federico Cortese
Title: Circular diagram
Quantity: 1
Conditions: excellent
Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper 
Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in)
Paper weight: 230 gr/mq
Finishing: fixative spray
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented)
Signed: on the front, bottom middle
Surface of the paper: smooth
An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm.

In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web.

Summary of features:
Artist: Federico Cortese
Title: Circular diagram
Quantity: 1
Conditions: excellent
Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper 
Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in)
Paper weight: 230 gr/mq
Finishing: fixative spray
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented)
Signed: on the front, bottom middle
Surface of the paper: smooth
An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm.

In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web.

Summary of features:
Artist: Federico Cortese
Title: Circular diagram
Quantity: 1
Conditions: excellent
Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper 
Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in)
Paper weight: 230 gr/mq
Finishing: fixative spray
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented)
Signed: on the front, bottom middle
Surface of the paper: smooth
An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm.

In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web.

Summary of features:
Artist: Federico Cortese
Title: Circular diagram
Quantity: 1
Conditions: excellent
Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper 
Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in)
Paper weight: 230 gr/mq
Finishing: fixative spray
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented)
Signed: on the front, bottom middle
Surface of the paper: smooth
An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm.

In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web.

Summary of features:
Artist: Federico Cortese
Title: Circular diagram
Quantity: 1
Conditions: excellent
Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper 
Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in)
Paper weight: 230 gr/mq
Finishing: fixative spray
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented)
Signed: on the front, bottom middle
Surface of the paper: smooth
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An original piece from the series “Diagram”, pencil and oil on paper, 44 x 50 cm. In my youth at the school, certain lessons were inevitably boring. When the distraction peered, inadvertently I began to scribble the pages of the books, filling with drawings their blank borders. The hour of history, or philosophy, gave easy ideas: I copied the portraits of philosophers illustrating the beginning of each chapter in the textbook. The math class gave beautiful diagrams: their geometries structured the space, providing backgrounds to fill with decorations, figures, pictures. Maybe it was the insight that those same geometry hid himself a sort of aesthetics, an inexplicable and axiomatic beauty, like when we are aware of it in front of nature, without being able to give it an explanation. This sort of drawings make me think of a kind of prayer, a repetitive but pleasant action, like the work of an embroiderer, like a spider weaving its web. Summary of features: Artist: Federico Cortese Title: Circular diagram Quantity: 1 Conditions: excellent Medium & materials: oil and pencil on thick paper Dimensions: 44 x 50 cm (17.3 x 19.7 in) Paper weight: 230 gr/mq Finishing: fixative spray Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2015 Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph Edges of the sheet: clean straight cut (not indented) Signed: on the front, bottom middle Surface of the paper: smooth

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Size:17.3 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in

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I’m like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I work within my home. My studio is a room of the house in which I live. In this relatively small space are accumulated all the materials and equipment I need to draw and paint, but in a certain sense also the suggestions that inspire my work. Here are the desks and drawing boards, with brushes and paint colors, but also, on the walls or placed in closets, paintings and drawings (I think each finished work is always an inspiration for the next, in somehow). A great source of ideas are books and music, and of course the PC. The graphics programs and virtual modeling programs have become over the years a valuable support, but obviously the richest mine is the internet: a reservoir of images and ideas from which to draw, and in which we often are lost (in addition to photos of my own travels, all stored on the computer). It’s a small microcosm closed in on itself, rather impervious to the outside world (despite a large window with a beautiful view of Turin, almost always I work with the curtains closed). It is a bit as if the suggestions of the real world were allowed to enter here only after being filtered and digested, only after it has been already turned into experience. Exactly like a rat, eating quiet its supplies in its den, waiting for the end of winter. In my artistic research I've always been attracted to all that is sortable, classifiable. Perhaps this attitude stems from a primordial insecurity, and perhaps the illusion of putting order into chaos eases this concern. To start this game is sufficient to identify a subject that lends itself to variations, and the game consists precisely in identifying the rules that form the basis of possible changes. It 'a little like discovering a new language and trying to decipher the syntax, grammar, exceptions. With these assumptions, it is easy to see that the subjects of this research can be the most different and in fact my designs ranging from butterfly collections to herbaria, from ancient bestiaries to manuals of anatomy, maps, human faces, hands, pornography, flags ... They are all languages having their own vocabulary, and my attempt is to isolate it and reinvent it, trying to generate new meanings. Consider for example a road map or a map. They are born with a practical, precise purpose.

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