work
Candy Skkinn
| category | Sculpture |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | |
| base | 68 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| depth | 15 cm |
| year | 2014 |
In a historical moment where appearance is more important than
substance, the colourful world of Candy Skkinn, contains with its deceptive
sweetness a hard truth.
Candies, lollypops, huge-size pastries, that as a decoy attract
the visitor who only in a second moment, is caught by what he or she
sees inside.
Art pieces which represent people from today’s society, who are
so worried about their appearance that they lose contact with the true
substance of things. A society where a person’s identity, the unique part
of each one of us, is set aside preferring a homogenized and standard
mass society. Looking beyond the surface, beyond the skin that we find
inside the art pieces, the outer part, the first one we see and sweetly attracts
us. We see a hand with its imprint, lines, its oneness, open, inviting
us to stop and reflect.
Today everything goes towards a standardization which tends
to suffocate our individual uniqueness.
Art must be a denounce while helping us recover the awareness
of the uniqueness of our bodies, and our person.
Deceptive and toxic candies, wrapped in petroleum in the shape of
a plastic Plexiglas, which nowadays is suffocating all of us.
A reflection on the direction that we are all taking regarding our relationship
with nature.
Candies as a metaphor of life that absorbs and phagocytizes us.
Candies are not an essential food but they attract us for their beauty.
And to be even more attractive I chose to evocate the 50’s Pop Art,
in the choice of the colours and of the shapes; in the labels reporting the
ingredients and the words “Prodotto Italiano” – Italian Product – and the
barcode with the number 8 identifying Italian products, followed by the
artist’s date of birth.
substance, the colourful world of Candy Skkinn, contains with its deceptive
sweetness a hard truth.
Candies, lollypops, huge-size pastries, that as a decoy attract
the visitor who only in a second moment, is caught by what he or she
sees inside.
Art pieces which represent people from today’s society, who are
so worried about their appearance that they lose contact with the true
substance of things. A society where a person’s identity, the unique part
of each one of us, is set aside preferring a homogenized and standard
mass society. Looking beyond the surface, beyond the skin that we find
inside the art pieces, the outer part, the first one we see and sweetly attracts
us. We see a hand with its imprint, lines, its oneness, open, inviting
us to stop and reflect.
Today everything goes towards a standardization which tends
to suffocate our individual uniqueness.
Art must be a denounce while helping us recover the awareness
of the uniqueness of our bodies, and our person.
Deceptive and toxic candies, wrapped in petroleum in the shape of
a plastic Plexiglas, which nowadays is suffocating all of us.
A reflection on the direction that we are all taking regarding our relationship
with nature.
Candies as a metaphor of life that absorbs and phagocytizes us.
Candies are not an essential food but they attract us for their beauty.
And to be even more attractive I chose to evocate the 50’s Pop Art,
in the choice of the colours and of the shapes; in the labels reporting the
ingredients and the words “Prodotto Italiano” – Italian Product – and the
barcode with the number 8 identifying Italian products, followed by the
artist’s date of birth.
