At the dead's end - Limited Edition of 9 Print

His artistic works is based on different media. Makes use of video, photography, painting and modern poor material such as plastics, alluminium, plexiglass, and glues. To underline the toxicity of the contemporary life His bigger artistic research, collected in the vast work-in-progress ‘Media-Evo’, is a critical and ironical interpretation of the contemporary world shown in the televisual media. He exhibited his works at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and in various sites in Italy and abroad (Innsbruck, Florence, Venice, Bologna, Milan, Catania, Naples, Rome, Miami). Media-evo A View in Pandora’s Box Emiliano Scatarzi’s work proposes a group of critical contemporary portraits. His digital photographs focus on social icons and ideologically charged individuals. He is not afraid to point out critical issues on war, poverty, media idols, or crucial matters that gravely affect us and our society. The military, -generals, soldiers, militia, -stand out with violent and provocative attitudes. Media idols, TV anchors, TV beauties, set their fake installments to shape the minds of masses. Powerless elderly figures navigating in their own loneliness show their weakest social stanza. Scatarzi has a sensitive eye that connects us to the most hidden social world where people are abandoned to their own solitude or to their existential or social starvation. In the show, the spectator is confronted to strong predicaments of society. Scartarzi’s pictorial approach to photography creates a peculiar visual effect on the images. We observe changes of color in the form of thick ‘impastos’ transforming the photographic field into a nuanced color field. With an impressionistic approach, the photographs show a sort of pictorial ‘brushstroke’ that create ambiguity and fussiness in the scene. The identity of the personage is blurred through a ‘trompe l’oeil’ of altered forms and shapes. Deceitful distortions have taken place. It is hard to recognize physical traits or specific characteristics. The spectator must keenly push his eye beyond traditional perception. The work ‘1984’ (In The Target) shows an immense cyclopean eye intensively staring at us, with ultimate judging and threatening gaze. This overwhelming and powerful eye seems to over-watch and control all.