EGO (tautotés) Painting

The work invites us to reflect on how we must rethink our way of “meeting” and communicating in our contemporary world, in a digital age, made of wireless connections that keep us constantly connected with each other, but, at the same time, profoundly far away and distant. An emotional distance that technology cannot bridge altogether. The ego narrated in the work pushes us to take a step backwards, to tackle the relational sphere in an authentic, “analogical” way. It returns to us an extraneous and at the same time familiar image, a sort of compositional enigma, a translation into signs and materials of contemporary incommunicability, of the apparently unbridgeable distance that separates the I from the other, together with the impossibility of emotionally transcending today’s linguistic and digital barriers. The figure drawn on the wood seems almost to want to withdraw into darkness and at the same time to make something else emerge, a reference to the inner dimension, exemplified through the emblematic image of naked and beating heart. The red threads that emerge like light from the cardiac muscle are not directed towards the viewer, as happens in the innumerable representations of Christian iconography, but instead turn aside and become part of an artificial and complex language that escapes from immediacy. A binary language, Morse, that shows the word itself “EGO”.

Multi-paneled Painting:Graphite on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.6 W x 33.5 H x 2 D in

Number of Panels:2

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