FRIDAY MARCH 2 2012 MEDITATION - #2 - Limited Edition of 20 Print

This etching is hand-pulled by the artist in a limited edition of 20 copies on 300g Hahnemuller etching print paper. This copy is being sold framed (hanging hardware is included). Frame size: 49 x 64 x 6 cm (19,3 x 25 x 2,4 in) Paper size: 37 x 52,5 cm (14,5 x 20,7 in) Plate size: 20 x 29,5 cm (7,9 x 11,6 in) The print is numbered and signed in the back The frame is a beautiful black wooden American shadow box frame, where the artwork is literally suspended above the background, giving a levitation effect, especially if under a spotlight. FRIDAY MARCH 2 2012 MEDITATION is an etching realised in Vipassana meditation state, the result of a unique project called The Experimental Cure. Vipassana is a very peculiar kind of meditation focusing on the “objectivity of individual perceptions”. The hand, in its exact correspondence with the point of attention of the mind going throughout the body, moves on a waxed zinc plate acting like a seismograph. It creates, then, a sort of map, often discontinuous and deformed, enriched by the endless range of experimentable perceptions, represented ex tempore with dashed lines, undulations, vectors, geometrical solids of temperature or expansion/compression, etc. An absolutely subjective and imperfect, changing alphabet that gives a shape to pleasure and pain, to what can be seen only with eyes closed. Immediately after finishing the meditation, the artwork is completed with the anatomical definition of the represented zones, and a short account of happenings preceding the meditation or come during it, presented in form of list, in order to give further information about the changing circumstances influencing the practice. This kind of investigation - where the thin light path of the consciousness through space stands out on the black background determined by the exclusion of sight - underlines the effort of the artist to communicate the impossible, while creating a bridge between Art, Science, Philosophy, Mysticism and everyday life. In the intention of Marco Tavolaro it’s meant to be, for his personal life as well as for contemporary culture and art itself, an experimental cure. The project has been officially presented in Matadero Madrid ( https://vimeo.com/67407796 ) and awarded and exhibited in many occasions, such as the FIG Grahia Award (Italy), the XXI Premios Nacionales De Grabado (Spain), the Beers Contemporary Award For Emerging Art (UK), as well as in the solo exhibition La Cura Experimental in Blanca Soto Gallery (Madrid, Spain), in 2016. Learn more about the project and see more artworks here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/11082203/THE-EXPERIMENTAL-CURE-Visual-Art-In-Meditation-State

Printmaking:Etching on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:20

Size:25.2 W x 19.3 H x 2.4 D in

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