work
URLA BASTA
| category | Painting |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | SOCIALE, CONCETTUALE |
| base | 140 cm |
| height | 140 cm |
| depth | 3 cm |
| year | 2024 |
acrylic and mixed media on canvas unique
Why do we act in one way rather than another? Why do we define ourselves with some terms and not others? I chose to obsessively repeat 200 definitions, each of which belongs to me and represents fragments of our daily identity. These repetitions create a hypnotic effect, a mirror of the monotony of everyday life.
At the end of each line, I added an anagram that breaks this monotony, transforming the original sentence into a new, more specific expression, while preserving its meaning. Every day, we add and remove elements from our life, just like in my anagram, where the letters move and combine differently.
Life is a one-way ticket, every day we start our day, our journey between encounters, reflections, mistakes, chance and introspection; we visit places outside and inside us, we get excited, we are amazed, we isolate ourselves, we aggregate, We attribute both positive and negative definitions to ourselves that reflect our duality, contradiction and complexity.
Every word I have written is represented by raised letters to underline that what we are must always be considered important, that everything has its weight and its shape.
At the center of the painting a phrase emerges: "tabularasa". It is the first thing we notice when looking at the work, but as we get closer we realize that it was created by the cancellation of other phrases, this time written in Italian. Traditionally, Italian was born from Latin, but in this painting I have applied an inverse process. We must dig and go backwards, we must travel inside ourselves until we reach the 200 definitions and only then can we delete them and start again.
Urla basta, (also an anagram of Tabularasa) a silent voice that moves inside us and creates the "cancellation".
This process thus transforms into a creative act, a stage of our journey, where the conscious elimination of some parts of ourselves gives life to change.
Why do we act in one way rather than another? Why do we define ourselves with some terms and not others? I chose to obsessively repeat 200 definitions, each of which belongs to me and represents fragments of our daily identity. These repetitions create a hypnotic effect, a mirror of the monotony of everyday life.
At the end of each line, I added an anagram that breaks this monotony, transforming the original sentence into a new, more specific expression, while preserving its meaning. Every day, we add and remove elements from our life, just like in my anagram, where the letters move and combine differently.
Life is a one-way ticket, every day we start our day, our journey between encounters, reflections, mistakes, chance and introspection; we visit places outside and inside us, we get excited, we are amazed, we isolate ourselves, we aggregate, We attribute both positive and negative definitions to ourselves that reflect our duality, contradiction and complexity.
Every word I have written is represented by raised letters to underline that what we are must always be considered important, that everything has its weight and its shape.
At the center of the painting a phrase emerges: "tabularasa". It is the first thing we notice when looking at the work, but as we get closer we realize that it was created by the cancellation of other phrases, this time written in Italian. Traditionally, Italian was born from Latin, but in this painting I have applied an inverse process. We must dig and go backwards, we must travel inside ourselves until we reach the 200 definitions and only then can we delete them and start again.
Urla basta, (also an anagram of Tabularasa) a silent voice that moves inside us and creates the "cancellation".
This process thus transforms into a creative act, a stage of our journey, where the conscious elimination of some parts of ourselves gives life to change.
