Japan Painting

Vito Piacente is a Toronto-based artist whose works provoke psychological juxtapositions between two extremes, such as strength and weakness, pain and pleasure, fulfillment and self-annihilation. Born in 1976, Piacente has created art since the age of seventeen. He attended Chaminade College School in Toronto. There he discovered his unconventional artistic nature that would later dominate both his digital and fabric canvases. After high school he attended the International Academy of Design where he studied the more commercially oriented aspects of art, including advertising and digital media. Piacente is a self-actualized artist whose execution of the human form is illustrative of his many influences, from Impressionism to Cubism and Street Art. He uses the energy of the city to drive his work, depicting subjects who are often caught in some in-between world where decadence and delusion, privilege and deprivation intermingle to create new experiences. His Inter Face series examines emotional subtleties physically expressed through the careful use of colour, subject matter and composition. The series represents the artist’s emotional state during its creation, darker and more solemn than other collections, and is an ode to human emotion and the almost indiscernible changes in the human form when confronted with these sentiments. In his most recent series, Abstract Deconstruction the artist presents elements of Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism, taking the viewer on a pilgrimage where the ultimate destination is self-discovery. As with many of the Piacente’s works, there are elements of sensuality, intrigue, and playfulness between colour, subject and shape, which converge to entice the viewer into the exploration of human expression through relations with “other.” Since embarking on his creative journey, Piacente has experimented with various styles and mediums, from oil on canvas to dye-sublimation on aluminum, allowing him to explore his vision and identity, and how the two converge depending on subject matter and materials.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 40 H x 2 D in

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