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| Oil on canvas wrapped in plastic, 50/60 cm |
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| oil on canvas, 180/140 cm |
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| oil on canvas, 180/160cm |
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My artistic concerns have always had as the core subject the human body and the symbolism related to the direct confrontation with the image of a deformed, fragmented, contorted body.
Through my work I want to express the feeling of
disintegration. The contorted flesh, which
evokes slaughterhouse products is actually the manifestation of an
aesthetic of excess, stirring up both attraction and repulsion while revealing
the implicit obligation of the observer to dissimulate his real feelings
towards the image of an imperfect, ghastly body.
I am eager to explore the possibility that painting gives us through its technique, to reduce flesh to simple volumes which can be manipulated visually and reproduced in order to inflict the observer with the confusion of recognizing the common image he has of his own body or of the human body in general.
Through my compositions, in which the body seen as a fragment loses its clarity as a coherent entity, I wanted to capture ambiguous images which correspond to certain moments of immobilization of the living human body. By trying to reject an approach of the idealized image of the body, I tried to capture the vulnerability of the human being, its incoherence and its complexity. The body and body fragments have no autonomous control whatsoever, they cease to function as an organism as they are animated by a superior force or by another body of a completely different matter, whose actions are visible through their consequences upon the flesh, and the modifications and manipulations it is subjected to.
I wanted to capture in my work this exact moment of post-rebellion of the flesh, this tense silence in which bodies and their fragments are left, this convulsive juxtaposition between the flesh and objects of different textures (plastic, metal) that are able to shatter the common image one has on the natural, healthy and beautiful human body
For me the body is an area to explore, a fascinating and frightening hallucination which offers aggregated sensations to you as an artist, as a spectator, as a simple being who possesses a body, or as an observer of your own body. " In this way the body becomes an interrogation about the limits of the identity. Until what point of fragmentation does an individual remain himself? Until what point of distortions we can identify the fragment as a part of a body? For how long does a human figure or a body which is dissolved in madness, hatred, or dead, remain a recognizable image? Where is the border beyond which ,,me’’ stops being ,,me’’? How much can we lose from our body in order to lose our identity? Which part of us represents the essence of our identity in order to lose all the other parts but keep only this one. Is it my head, is it my hart, is it my hands or legs? These paintings are born from all this questions and I even feel like, in the end these images are still not able to offer any answer but to continue questioning the ambiguous entity of the human body.
I am eager to explore the possibility that painting gives us through its technique, to reduce flesh to simple volumes which can be manipulated visually and reproduced in order to inflict the observer with the confusion of recognizing the common image he has of his own body or of the human body in general.
Through my compositions, in which the body seen as a fragment loses its clarity as a coherent entity, I wanted to capture ambiguous images which correspond to certain moments of immobilization of the living human body. By trying to reject an approach of the idealized image of the body, I tried to capture the vulnerability of the human being, its incoherence and its complexity. The body and body fragments have no autonomous control whatsoever, they cease to function as an organism as they are animated by a superior force or by another body of a completely different matter, whose actions are visible through their consequences upon the flesh, and the modifications and manipulations it is subjected to.
I wanted to capture in my work this exact moment of post-rebellion of the flesh, this tense silence in which bodies and their fragments are left, this convulsive juxtaposition between the flesh and objects of different textures (plastic, metal) that are able to shatter the common image one has on the natural, healthy and beautiful human body
For me the body is an area to explore, a fascinating and frightening hallucination which offers aggregated sensations to you as an artist, as a spectator, as a simple being who possesses a body, or as an observer of your own body. " In this way the body becomes an interrogation about the limits of the identity. Until what point of fragmentation does an individual remain himself? Until what point of distortions we can identify the fragment as a part of a body? For how long does a human figure or a body which is dissolved in madness, hatred, or dead, remain a recognizable image? Where is the border beyond which ,,me’’ stops being ,,me’’? How much can we lose from our body in order to lose our identity? Which part of us represents the essence of our identity in order to lose all the other parts but keep only this one. Is it my head, is it my hart, is it my hands or legs? These paintings are born from all this questions and I even feel like, in the end these images are still not able to offer any answer but to continue questioning the ambiguous entity of the human body.
