VIEW IN MY ROOM
Sweet Thorn - Limited Edition of 50 Photograph
United Kingdom
Photography, Digital on Paper
Size: 11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
The Photo will arrive signed and numbered by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of Authenticity. It will arrive unframed. Explanation of the photograph: Dressed in 50 meters barbed wire and 70 roses. Blowing balloons with written words. Each word representing something I want to transform on earth. Slowly freeing myself from the wire with the use of a cutter. With the pieces of barbed wire, a stem is created. Using the stem and the burst balloon, I will make a white flower which will be given, together with a rose to a member of the audience as a cathartic action for transformation. Slowly getting totally free from the wire. The idea of “Sweet thorn” emerged from my tour to Palestine and South Africa and was developed at IPSA (Institute of Palestine in South Africa). Sweet Thorn is inspired by the sound of “sweet sweet home”, in this case, the home is my own body, the essence of my soul that can’t be. More info on google serach: Matlakas "Sweet Thorn"
Details & Dimensions
Photography:Digital on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:50
Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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United Kingdom
Riccardo Matlakas (b.1992, Naples, Italy) is a London based multidisciplinary artist working internationally. He is best known for his multi-talented capacity in different art forms including performance, dance, painting and sculpture. He obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University. Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for the essence of humanity beyond race and custom. The artist often collects relics from his performances which later become objects of memory and contemplation. Riccardo Matlakas has performed and shown his work extensively in Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, South Africa, Iran, Armenia, Russia, Myanmar, Mauritius and South Korea.
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