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VENUS VICTRIX HODIE (price upon request) Sculpture

Marco Battaglini

Costa Rica

Sculpture, Resin on Other

Size: 23.6 W x 72.8 H x 23.6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

My Art has important classical references which I then combine with urban themes and graffiti to send messages, provoke thoughts and emotions. I use classical references because the appeal of the classic is something atavistic, almost genetic ... classical aesthetics is generally considered sublime because the canons it uses are still very powerful and effective for all of us, so I like to contaminate it with the contemporary ‘anti-aesthetic’ of the urban culture world of hip-hop and graffiti, and surprise the viewer by creating a pleasant composition and therefore breaking their mold. In light of this, I see Art as a manifestation of the imagination which is our divine gift par excellence. So Art cannot be limited to reality, to the convictions or beliefs of the moment, it must be something out of time and space. Venus, which is in any case a timeless mythological character, has always been the symbol of female beauty, and it seemed to me interesting to revalue this symbol and above all to highlight contemporary aesthetic concepts within a symbol of the past.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Sculpture:

Resin on Other

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

23.6 W x 72.8 H x 23.6 D in

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Through a subtle interplay of multiple realities overlapping in the chronotope, Battaglini evidences the contradictions in mental models about the temporal contrast (chronological), and the cultural and linguistic barriers. Compositions which at first seem 'logicals', immediately reveal temporal and spatial limitations that are disruptive in the interpretation of reality. Battaglini invites us to think that in today's global village, with the 'democratization' of culture, the evolution of knowledge, information immediacy, immersed in the heterogeneity, the Patchwork Culture forces us to confront with a need understanding beyond our geographical boundaries of time. Probably the uniqueness of the Italian artist Marco Battaglini is to conceptualize the possible coexistence of the ideals of classical beauty with the anti-aesthetic, the combination of the divine and refined with the vulgar, through a composition that can complement different realities in an eternal instant. His research of multidimensionality leads him to overlap different temporal, spatial and cultural realities, where everything seems to make sense… This is ultimately the Battaglini’s purpose: remove barriers that distort the perception of reality.

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