Testolin Artwork

This work is the encounter between a pornographic/contemporary body and the head of an antique ceramic doll. It's a reflection on matter and its illusions, on the body and its masks, on time and changing morals. Through a refined language it's found an ironic yet caustic key to a world that becomes only appearances. The spectator, faced with that sense of unease of a naked body combined with the pure playfulness of a little girl, hopes that it will be transformed through the precious material of damask into an elevation of holiness. The filthy body is only forgiven because it is given a mask to protect itself from its fears. The star, the symbol and identifying mark of my poetics for a period, signals an important point in the body of the subject. It does not speak of the physical body, but of a force that goes in search of its soul. That light becomes the beacon of consciousness. Inspirational concepts for this work are theatre as a play of parts, the body as a human limitation, which takes no account of either the soul or the spirit, a being that forgives everyone and everything. 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 decorated Indian silk. 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.

Mixed Media:Etching on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:13.8 W x 13.8 H x 2.4 D in

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