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Snuff Art Project – Koi (2)
| category | Video |
| subject | Animal |
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| minutes | 0 |
| seconds | 55 |
| year | 2022 |
Snuff Art Project aims to show how a "rebirth" occurs through a "death". Death is given by the physical work of art, burned in front of a video camera; on the other hand, rebirth is constituted by what remains of the work, deprived of its material container.
The video filming its destruction is what reestablishes the phases of this “cycle”, through which time is made to flow backwards and the roles of the "before” and the “after" are reversed. All starts from work’s ash and, in about a minute, we arrive at the definition of a shape that, at first distorted, gradually regroups until it regains its original integrity. This final form represents the work of art reborn in digital format.
Seen from this perspective, the physical death of the work is nothing other than the consequence of a process functional to its rebirth. A reasonable price to pay, if we consider that, by being reborn, the work not only maintains intact its artistic character, but it is richer, thanks to the "added value" of its death.
For this first “Snuff” experience, we asked seven Roman street artists to paint small and dwarfish artworks to be glued on matchboxes, in complete thematic and stylistic freedom. Both matchboxes and artworks were covered in gasoline and torched in front of a video-camera that filmed their incineration. In the editing, clips’ direction was studiously inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
Koi – Rome, 1981
The passion for Street Art and its many techniques brought him over the years to the world of stencil. Multilayer stencils are his favorite. Through precise and well-calculated cutouts, he mainly creates portraits, close-ups, people’s and animals’ particular expressions that touch him during his daily life.
The technique shows an ongoing evolution, as well as the impulse to refine his artistic research day after day. He took part in solo and group exhibitions and in 2020, on behalf of Disney-20th Century Studios Italia, he performed five portraits and five artworks for the protagonists of the film “The New Mutants”. In 2021, the work "Hey! Are you Bansky?" was exposed at Chiostro del Bramante during the exhibition "All about Bansky". Moreover, later that year, on behalf of the “Organics by RedBull”, realizes the mural "Walk this way" in the San Lorenzo district of Rome.
Technique: Stencil on paper (weight 180g/ m2) - single piece.
The video filming its destruction is what reestablishes the phases of this “cycle”, through which time is made to flow backwards and the roles of the "before” and the “after" are reversed. All starts from work’s ash and, in about a minute, we arrive at the definition of a shape that, at first distorted, gradually regroups until it regains its original integrity. This final form represents the work of art reborn in digital format.
Seen from this perspective, the physical death of the work is nothing other than the consequence of a process functional to its rebirth. A reasonable price to pay, if we consider that, by being reborn, the work not only maintains intact its artistic character, but it is richer, thanks to the "added value" of its death.
For this first “Snuff” experience, we asked seven Roman street artists to paint small and dwarfish artworks to be glued on matchboxes, in complete thematic and stylistic freedom. Both matchboxes and artworks were covered in gasoline and torched in front of a video-camera that filmed their incineration. In the editing, clips’ direction was studiously inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
Koi – Rome, 1981
The passion for Street Art and its many techniques brought him over the years to the world of stencil. Multilayer stencils are his favorite. Through precise and well-calculated cutouts, he mainly creates portraits, close-ups, people’s and animals’ particular expressions that touch him during his daily life.
The technique shows an ongoing evolution, as well as the impulse to refine his artistic research day after day. He took part in solo and group exhibitions and in 2020, on behalf of Disney-20th Century Studios Italia, he performed five portraits and five artworks for the protagonists of the film “The New Mutants”. In 2021, the work "Hey! Are you Bansky?" was exposed at Chiostro del Bramante during the exhibition "All about Bansky". Moreover, later that year, on behalf of the “Organics by RedBull”, realizes the mural "Walk this way" in the San Lorenzo district of Rome.
Technique: Stencil on paper (weight 180g/ m2) - single piece.
