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The painting is inspired by the novel "The House of Asterion" by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Asterione is the occupant of a house of many corridors and rooms, swimming pools and courtyards, where every 9 years 9 men die immediately after having seen it, not even having him the chance to get close to them. He spends his days and years waiting for the one who will redeem him. It will be Theseus, who will later tell Arianna how the Minotaur (just now we realize who Asterione actually was) hardly resisted his death. I loved this perspective on a mythological creature always seen from a very violent and obscure point of view. My Minotaur (whose "mask" in the shape of a bull head is seen on the base of the painting) is more a man than a beast, and has the same feelings, the same fears and desires that we have, sometimes hidden behind another face or a mask. This is one of the works (increasing in the last two years) inspired by literary and mythological sources (as happened for characters like Ofelia and Lorelei), because once again history and the past help us to understand ourselves and the contemporary world. The painting, whose preparation began with the welding of the slabs, to then devote myself to the oxidation phase and finally to the painting, also shows a background sprinkled with bitumen, which in my intentions infuses the work with a particularly dramatic character.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Sabatino Cersosimo was born in Turin in 1974. He studied advertising design and then received a Degree in Painting and Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin in 1999. Since 2011 he lives and works in Berlin. Following a line that has its roots in a certain expressionist painting (especially the Viennese Secession) but evolves through the modern mediterranean and english realism, he uses basically two surfaces: metal and wood. Since he mainly paints with oil and oxidation on steel plates, the concepts of time, will and chance have been crucial to the development of his research. Art is historically considered eternal, but Cersosimo's paintings underscore art’s metamorphic nature. Here, we witness artwork as it is developing, shifting, and in some cases, mutating into other forms, much like the elements of nature on the planet. Cersosimo's paintings mirror constellations of humanity in tiny particles. In doing so, they feature many of the commonalities shared among human beings across culture, language, gender, and race.
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