Sofia - Limited Edition of 1 Print

Hi my name is Angelo Di Gianfilippo, i was born in 1974 in Rome where I live and work. My monotypes are all born from magazine collages, they are all unique pieces. Are all printend on washi paper. My works propose a reflection on the iconography of women, found in advertising and in fashion magazines, images in which the female figure is a simple support for promoting commercial objects and products. With this particular printing technique, I take away all the superfluous, giving back to the subject his personality. Started as pure technical experimentation my work turned out. Using a technique, learned during my studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland), I realized that by "tearing" the ink from the images I chose, they changed identities. Proceeding with the experimentation, for physical / mechanical reasons, related to the type of paper and the physical characteristics of the inks, the search for subjects took place more and more often taking images from fashion magazines. By literally tearing the ink to print it on Japanese paper, the negatives began to communicate. The loss of legibility, of the integral image, restored to the subject an autonomous identity with respect to its initial function. The reasons are simple, our brain is programmed to recognize faces, so the few sections left after the treatment, bring out the figures from the background. It follows that physical transformation, thanks to pregnancy, change the status of the subject, which merely supports it objects and commercial communications, back to being a person.