zombie flying Painting

My task to deliver messages through painting, at some point adapted a fictional being as the messenger. It turned through my paintings to a crusader against stereotypes and racism, that symbol is a zombie! Racism, for fictional beings, is indeed real and dangerous because is governed by the same principles of past fascist systems. Zombie as a foreign terrorist, impossible to exist other than to destroy humanity. It’s repulsive look the dis figuration, the diversity that is condemned. Zombie as cursed religiously speaking, the evil that must be exorcised. Zombie, lacking reason, as an inferior species. Millions of zombies are being killed daily in apps, video games, movies, a fact majority accepts as normal. Is it normal I wonder to create something just to hate it? Digitally killing it, even if it’s a fictional creature? Is there really an fundamental change, regarding racism, if we still need to hate, as long as we create what we hate? In my painting zombies are just another kind of creatures that have feelings, dream, discover, getting bored, laugh, cry, making love, through a different value’s system. I am not trying to humanize them, or evoke pity, but to expand our acceptance and respect to diversity. Brought back from the dead, doesn’t make them resurrected humans, but something different, unknown, we could even try to get to know them. I dare to say that in my paintings when they meet people they just approach them with curiosity like any other animal. To combine the messages I write on the canvas with the painting process itself, I start my paintings with big gestural brushstrokes with gesso primer… after all, the way I paint is what invites the viewer to come closer and discover the lacework like drawings-writings. I never question these first intimate shapes, on the contrary, they show me the way I will compose the painting and protect them to the end. These traces-shapes I see, are gradually transformed, to often figurative creatures and gently help them to be recognizable. In “zombie” series the colors are vivid, however the contrast between the colors is low, calm… helping the details create the intimacy required with the viewer. I therefore become the messenger of an subconscious urge. The initial existential messages became marching slogans, for instance “zombies do have rights”.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.2 D in

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