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Snuff Art Project – K2m (1)
| category | Video |
| subject | Nature |
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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 inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
K2m – Sassari, 1974
Street artist based in Rome, he showed up in the Italian capital in 2007 by putting up posters that depict life-size skaters, obtained from collages of images. In the years ahead, he has been dedicating to drawing, an activity that he still carries out and that, at the moment, marks his artistic research’s expressive pivot.
He often lends his characters strong pop connotations and they are entrusted with the task of interacting with the urban world through posters.
His works, characterized by a full and remarkable sign, were exposed in festivals and exhibitions such as "URBAN REACTION FIGURE" (MACRO - Rome, 2017), "STARS: from Street Art to Space Art" (Palazzo Velli - Rome, 2019 ) and the “Border Arte Festival” (Varallo Sesia, 2022).
Technique: acrylic on paper (180g / m2) - unique 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 inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
K2m – Sassari, 1974
Street artist based in Rome, he showed up in the Italian capital in 2007 by putting up posters that depict life-size skaters, obtained from collages of images. In the years ahead, he has been dedicating to drawing, an activity that he still carries out and that, at the moment, marks his artistic research’s expressive pivot.
He often lends his characters strong pop connotations and they are entrusted with the task of interacting with the urban world through posters.
His works, characterized by a full and remarkable sign, were exposed in festivals and exhibitions such as "URBAN REACTION FIGURE" (MACRO - Rome, 2017), "STARS: from Street Art to Space Art" (Palazzo Velli - Rome, 2019 ) and the “Border Arte Festival” (Varallo Sesia, 2022).
Technique: acrylic on paper (180g / m2) - unique piece.
