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Italy
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 27.6 W x 19.7 H x 2 D in
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This artwork belongs to a series called Libertine Papers on which the artist has been working since 2009. The series Libertine Papers is inspired by the figure of Madame Sevigné and her intimate epistolary correspondence with the daughter. Within this correspondence Madame Sevigné describes the life of the Parisian aristocracy at Sun King's court which for Masone is very similar to the Venetian one, both made of intrigue, betrayals, passions and love. The watercolors are executed on handmade cottonpaper which are modelled on the shapes of the represented subjects therefore forming a paper bas-relief. Masone has invented his support, the embossed paper, that is not just a simple support – like plaster, canvas or stone – but it is an artistic and artisanal creation itself: each sheet of paper is created with reliefs and corrugations of a specific prints therefore it could never be used for anything else. This work is about the erotic France of the seventeenth century. Here eroticism was considered a mental freedom that made people 'libertines', a word that has nothing in common with libertinism as we interpret it today. The vast epistolary does not depict morbid personal experiences but, on the contrary, Madame de Sévigné describes the more abstract libertinage made of whispers, looks and smiles rather than sexual experiences. It is a description that recalls the perfumes and the aura of the eroticism of the Paris court, which was celebrated with sublime gossip and became uninteresting when it was downgraded to banal and obscene sex that transform the erotic beauty of a hidden gaze into flesh, sweat and pants. The series Libertine Papers narrates about both aspects with rococo grace, it reflects the contents of the letters as Masone feels them.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Erotic
Materials:Paper
Styles:FigurativeFine Art
Mediums:WatercolorAcrylic
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 19.7 H x 2 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Italy.
Customs:Shipments from Italy may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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Fernando Masone was born in 1952 in Pietrelcina near Benevento, Italy. In his twenties, he approached the art of ceramic working at the Esedra art studio in Rome. Thereafter, he continued to deepen his knowledge and research in the art of ceramic and he also specialized in the art of print at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia where he used to be both collaborator and teacher. In 1980, he established the Centro Polivalente Lysandra at the Ostia Lido about ceramics. In the mid-eighties, the experience in the fields of ceramics and printmaking led him to conduct a very personal research on high-relief modelled paper art printing, using molds made out of terracotta, fiberglass and more. After overcoming many limits of the materials on a technical level, he began obtaining the first results with heavy-weight industrial papers, that were impossible to reach with common industrial paper, even of highest quality, as it tends to break when subjected to the solicitation in the making of reliefs of a few millimeters. In 1990, after attending a paper making course at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, he started a personal research on paper material managing to solve major difficulties caused by the use of industrial paper. Since the early nineties, he has a laboratory set up for the handmade production of paper, he organizes workshops and seminars in Italy and abroad, he has specialized himself in molded paper print and collaborates with the best known contemporary artists. In 1999, he launched CARTAVENEZIA, a gallery and art shop where the invited artists exhibit their work exclusively on handmade paper.
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