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From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ...

Summary of features:
Artist: 				Federico Cortese
Title: 				Matrioska in New York
Quantity: 			1
Subject: 			urban landscape
Medium & materials: 		oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained)
Dimensions: 			90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in)
Thickness of the canvas: 	2 cm
Finishing: 			protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: 	Turin, Italy - 2017
Certificate of Authenticity: 	included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the canvas:		painted in continuity with the surface		(the canvas can be hanged without frame)
Signed: 			on the front, bottom right corner
From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ...

Summary of features:
Artist: 				Federico Cortese
Title: 				Matrioska in New York
Quantity: 			1
Subject: 			urban landscape
Medium & materials: 		oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained)
Dimensions: 			90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in)
Thickness of the canvas: 	2 cm
Finishing: 			protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: 	Turin, Italy - 2017
Certificate of Authenticity: 	included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the canvas:		painted in continuity with the surface		(the canvas can be hanged without frame)
Signed: 			on the front, bottom right corner
From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ...

Summary of features:
Artist: 				Federico Cortese
Title: 				Matrioska in New York
Quantity: 			1
Subject: 			urban landscape
Medium & materials: 		oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained)
Dimensions: 			90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in)
Thickness of the canvas: 	2 cm
Finishing: 			protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: 	Turin, Italy - 2017
Certificate of Authenticity: 	included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the canvas:		painted in continuity with the surface		(the canvas can be hanged without frame)
Signed: 			on the front, bottom right corner
From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ...

Summary of features:
Artist: 				Federico Cortese
Title: 				Matrioska in New York
Quantity: 			1
Subject: 			urban landscape
Medium & materials: 		oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained)
Dimensions: 			90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in)
Thickness of the canvas: 	2 cm
Finishing: 			protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: 	Turin, Italy - 2017
Certificate of Authenticity: 	included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the canvas:		painted in continuity with the surface		(the canvas can be hanged without frame)
Signed: 			on the front, bottom right corner
From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ...

Summary of features:
Artist: 				Federico Cortese
Title: 				Matrioska in New York
Quantity: 			1
Subject: 			urban landscape
Medium & materials: 		oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained)
Dimensions: 			90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in)
Thickness of the canvas: 	2 cm
Finishing: 			protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: 	Turin, Italy - 2017
Certificate of Authenticity: 	included, with signature of the artist on photograph 
Edges of the canvas:		painted in continuity with the surface		(the canvas can be hanged without frame)
Signed: 			on the front, bottom right corner

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From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm. Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika", he probably used the notions that he took from the newspapers and from his literary knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that informations with his imagination, inventing a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till the point that often we remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York? No matter, it's good enough ... Summary of features: Artist: Federico Cortese Title: Matrioska in New York Quantity: 1 Subject: urban landscape Medium & materials: oil on cotton canvas (fine-grained) Dimensions: 90 x 70 cm (35.4 x 27.6 in) Thickness of the canvas: 2 cm Finishing: protective gloss varnish (transparent mastic paint) Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2017 Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph Edges of the canvas: painted in continuity with the surface (the canvas can be hanged without frame) Signed: on the front, bottom right corner

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I’m like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings and paintings. I work within my home. My studio is a room of the house in which I live. In this relatively small space are accumulated all the materials and equipment I need to draw and paint, but in a certain sense also the suggestions that inspire my work. Here are the desks and drawing boards, with brushes and paint colors, but also, on the walls or placed in closets, paintings and drawings (I think each finished work is always an inspiration for the next, in somehow). A great source of ideas are books and music, and of course the PC. The graphics programs and virtual modeling programs have become over the years a valuable support, but obviously the richest mine is the internet: a reservoir of images and ideas from which to draw, and in which we often are lost (in addition to photos of my own travels, all stored on the computer). It’s a small microcosm closed in on itself, rather impervious to the outside world (despite a large window with a beautiful view of Turin, almost always I work with the curtains closed). It is a bit as if the suggestions of the real world were allowed to enter here only after being filtered and digested, only after it has been already turned into experience. Exactly like a rat, eating quiet its supplies in its den, waiting for the end of winter. In my artistic research I've always been attracted to all that is classifiable. Perhaps this attitude stems from a primordial insecurity, and perhaps the illusion of putting order into chaos eases this concern. To start this game is sufficient to identify a subject that lends itself to variations, and the game consists precisely in identifying the rules that form the basis of possible changes. It 'a little like discovering a new language and trying to decipher the syntax, grammar, exceptions. With these assumptions, it is easy to see that the subjects of this research can be the most different and in fact my designs ranging from butterfly collections and ancient bestiaries to manuals of anatomy, maps, human faces, hands, pornography, flags. They are all languages having their own vocabulary, and my attempt is to isolate it and reinvent it, trying to generate new meanings. Consider for example a road map or a map. They are born with a practical, precise purpose.

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