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Italy
Mixed Media, Etching on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 13.8 W x 13.8 H x 2.4 D in
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About The Artwork
The work was inspired by the death of my grandmother Maria with the intention of celebrating and thanking her for her great love. She, being of the Catholic faith, used the rosary for her prayers and the silk shirt to go to Sunday services. While I was travelling through India, I heard the news of her passing and when I returned I found myself living in what had been her home for a few years. During that time I used some of the objects he lived with and used on a daily basis. These acquired a different meaning that gave rise to this and other new works: a reflection on the cycle of life and death. Inspired by a spiritual quest, the encounter with one's ancestors fosters self-knowledge and personal evolution. I hope that viewers will rediscover that intimate atmosphere I experienced with a person I loved deeply and who returned this love to me day by day until his death. May they grasp that sense of mystery that runs through our lives every day. 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. 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 my trademark. The latter was then inked and printed on the silk with the same roller stroke.
Original Created:2005
Subjects:Religion
Materials:Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)Other
Styles:ConceptualContemporaryModern
Details & Dimensions
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
Frame:Not applicable
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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