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Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: Swim like a Butterfly!! Artwork - Limited Edition of 25

Vinci Art

United Kingdom

Mixed Media, Vector on Paper

Size: 8.3 W x 11.8 H x 0.1 D in

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This work has been inspired by the Rio Paralympic Games 2016, and by the previous works in the series. This has been inspired by the swimming events at the Rio Paralympics, in particular, that of the 50m Butterfly Final, and that of the Team GB, Gold Medal winner, Susie Rodgers (in the work indicated by initials SR). The background contains hidden text behind, forming a playable word search of the Olympics Games events, with either 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 Letter words, similar to previous works. Butterflies are a current trend at the moment, in the Art Market, with Damien Hirst producing a series of Butterfly works. However, in this work, I have taken the Butterfly out of context, to represent the swimmer, Susie Rodgers, and give it the symbolic colours of the Great British Flag. With my previous works, I am interested in codes and hidden messages. Within this work, I have divided the Butterfly which has an outline of 360’ into 26 equal segments to represent the 26 Letters of the Alphabet (see image for rotated through 180’ to represent the Letter M). The Butterfly has been rotated to spell the Letter "S" the Christian name of the swimmer. Similarly, there is another hidden message. In the work, I am interested in transparency, the interaction between the body, and water, thus, diving into the water, below the water line, and coming up for air, creates different transparencies, when seen above as an aerial view. I have recreated this by using the transparency command on Adobe Illustrator, and assigning each letter a different transparency percentage (ratio of the body to that of water), thus surname letter "R" would be 84% of the Butterfly, and 16% of water showing. The swimmer has been positioned in Lane #1, referring to First on Gold Medal, and is indicated by the outer green markers on the left-hand-side, and the dark blue marker on the right-hand side, on a standard Olympic Pool. Limited Edition Print 1 of 25 on either A3 30cm x 40cm

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Mixed Media:Vector on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25

Size:8.3 W x 11.8 H x 0.1 D in

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UK-based Vinci Art is a Conceptual Artist and Post Pop Artist best known for his abstract use of repetitive vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines superimposed with four-letter words forming a playable word search “The idea or concept [Conceptual Art] is the most important aspect of the work, and I use any medium [painting, digital, printmaking or sculpture] to convey the idea to the piece of Fine Art” The Artist is interested in the interaction between opposites, yin & yang, war & peace, love & hate, rich & poor, and life & death. The Artist juxtaposes these contrasts with the innocent of Toys and Games used in our youth. His most recent body of work Style Series is influenced by De Stijl after Piet Mondrian [1872-1944]. De Stijl is Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism was a Dutch art movement. De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white, and primary colours. His previous body of work includes the "Berry Series" influenced by textiles and cloth of “Plaid” or tartan one of the most widely used patterns in history. The work used a combination of vertical stripes and horizontal stripes with transparency to the underlayer. The stripes follow a sequence or order from dark to light, known as Conceptual Art The previous body of work includes "Flags of the World" which communicates with viewers through linguistics, semiotics, and cryptography. The series includes English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and American Flags superimposed with four-letter words of their respective language forming a playable word search from A to Z. His previous works include, "Retro Celebrity Stars", which is a homage to celebrities of our past from the films of the Hollywood Golden Era, to the present day. Every one of these individuals helped create the world we live in today, and though we know their names, their actual images might be fading from our memory. "Disasters of War", is a homage to Heroes and Villains from World War I & II, by the use of humorous and tongue-in-cheek language to explore the more serious issues of the past to the present day. Heroes and Villains are portrayed in life, death, and immortality by the use of toys of our innocent youth. The toys are used as a satirical look at the “Disasters of Wars” revealing shock and truths of war and violence in a playful way.

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