Éros e Thánatos Painting

For more info about me and my art check my official website: http://www.francescocalipari.it/index.php All prices are negotiable. Available also for commissions. For proposals, offers, or dealing about prices contact me on my website. “When I work on my paintings, it is as if I felt constantly the creative and destructive impulse that lies at the base of every human being. I feel the need to alter the material, merging with it and in this way with the randomness that comes from its alteration itself. This is why I burn the plastic, the canvases, shatter objects, use stucco, glazes and other materials, sometimes completely devoid of conventional painting techniques. It is as if the physical laws governing the properties of matter challenge me in a game where we both have control, but at the same time neither one of them has it: I will never be able to predict what form a glass object will take that I decide to shatter, a piece of bottle that I decide to dissolve, a flow of paint or a spatula of stucco that I decide to splash on the canvas. I can decide what to do with it, convey its use on my canvases, but I could never calculate all the variables and the way in which that particular material will respond to my alterations at that given moment, until the laws of physics have done their course. This antagonism, between what I continually try to control, shape, convey and manage, and what is dominated by pure randomness and physical laws, becomes a metaphor for that great unknown that is life. The unpredictability becomes a thrill, the thrill becomes life and life becomes matter on canvas: this is how the creative process underlies my works and that is how I feel all of myself flow into each of them ". - F. Calipari -