A COUPLE OF DOWNLIGHTS ERCO Painting

The Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades was unique pieces. Beyond being current objects, of industrial production, Duchamp elevated them to works of Art, giving to them a statuary monumentality. A ceramic urinal, a bicycle wheel installed on a wooden stool or a metal bottle-drainer: those objects was isolated and exposed in the New York galleries, ascending in this way to the higher aesthetic rank. Later, Andy Warhol started to assemble his objects in ordered groups, systematizing them in geometric rows, like good little soldiers. It doesn’t matter they were cans of tomato soup, soap boxes or magazine photos of celebrities: the square repetition of the object was the key to open to him the doors of the world of Art. I personally prefer the couple. It seems to me more harmonious and sentimental. A couple is neither statuary, nor isolated and not even militaristic. A couple is a little world, built on proximity, concordance and love. My couples of objects present themselves as beings tightly bound to each other: as twin brothers, inseparable friends, lovers or wife and husband. There’s no action. Only there is the presence. And the light. Light and shadow. The shadows of my youth enchantment for the Giorgio De Chirico’s Metaphysic. Or even of my hieratic and naive architectural drawings. This couple of downlights of the eighties served me to light the canvases I painted on the darker area of my study. The large room covered by a skylight served for the designers. I stole hours of work for projects to paint my leopard’s spots. Good old days.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:66.9 W x 33.5 H x 0 D in

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