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Hardhead Artwork
Italy
Mixed Media, Etching on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 19.7 W x 19.7 H x 2.4 D in
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About The Artwork
Like other works I call 'hard heads', in this one we find a body taken from a pornographic image superimposed in collage on a lion's head. The head in this case was photographed from one of the ancient gates of the city of Verona: in Veronese idiom, to say 'gate head' is equivalent to saying 'hard head'. If someone is afraid, he needs to show himself strong, big, he needs to shout. The strength of the lion wants to see beyond the physical body, emphasising the existence of a spiritual and an animic body. Thus was born a reflection on matter and its illusions, on the body and its masks, on time and changing morals. Through a refined language, I found an ironic yet caustic key to represent a world that is only appearance. TECHNIQUE The photo-transfer technique, which I learnt in Spain, is a manual print made with a roller pressure press that - through a process of chemical heat and pressure - 'brings back' the printed image onto the final support: in this case a velvet canvas. For me, this technique was a reminiscence of my childhood period when I used to play with toy transfer sheets, which is why I used it for a long time in my artistic production. The technique creates a reversal of the image as in photography with its negative being printed. This reversal creates a splitting, it gives the possibility to consider a polarity: chaos/order, darkness/light, evil/good that are not divisible, but mutually complementary because they are part of the same world. I also added an 8-pointed blue star element to the work using the intaglio technique of etching, in which I took a zinc plate, waxed and etched it until I obtained the star outline that represents one of my trademarks. The latter was then inked and printed on the silk with the same roller stroke. Finally, the embroidery of a vine flower was added, another personal symbol of mine.
Details & Dimensions
Mixed Media:Etching on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 2.4 D in
Frame:Not applicable
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Italy.
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I come from two generations of painters and in my turn, I have tried to 'be' an artist by painting and participating in the art world. In 1996, even before completing my training as a Master of Art in Painting, I started exhibiting at public institutions and galleries and had my first teaching experiences. I have always felt the need to get out of the everyday: I have stayed many times in India, Brazil and Morocco for several months where I realised artistic and didactic projects. On my path of artistic and personal growth, I learnt to use my wounds to try to help others through art and beauty. I realised that by joining with high energies I could give myself to people and the world to 'be' an artist. I thus created a path by no longer thinking through the dynamics of an oppressive system, but by going towards a world in need of transformation and awakening. For me, the way to go in that direction is linked to the world of gaming: through our hands and bodies we live the experience that moves the invisible parts of us. Over time, my art has not remained still in itself, but has evolved to become 'social art' in the sense that the great German artist Joseph Buys intended: an art opposed to individualism that espouses the concept of democratisation and opens up to the public, to the group, to the shared realisation of the work as in my latest works. Today I aspire to the 'spiritual of art' that Kandinsky referred to, which leads to change and the evolution of the self. I currently work in education and training with children, adults and people with disabilities. I invent, construct and use my games together with art therapy as a method of personal and group development.
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