work
C’era una volta l’America
| category | Painting |
| subject | Human figure, Nature, Political / Social |
| tags | viaggio, umanità, uguaglianze, speranze, memoria, sogni, discriminazione, differenze, persone, pace, guerra, tempo, società |
| base | 100 cm |
| height | 40 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2025 |
Title: "Once Upon a Time in America"
Size: 100x40cm
Technique: Mixed media on metal support/metal powder/acrylic/experimental print/engraving
Year: 2025
The work is created on a metal sheet, a durable, industrial medium, introducing a tension between material hardness and the fragility of thought. The metal surface, marked, scratched, and layered, becomes an active part of the composition: it reflects light, retains abrasions, and preserves the traces of time like an urban skin.
The handwritten text in the upper section appears more like a mental flow engraved than written, an accumulation of existential reflections that engage with the coldness of the support. The long central form, organic and chromatically vibrant, flows through the metal like an emotional flow, a line of resistance that breaks the rigidity of the material.
In the lower section, worn images and writings ("There Was an America") emerge as remnants of historical and cultural memory, partially erased but impossible to completely eliminate. The metal amplifies the sense of permanence and conflict: what is painted can be covered, but not forgotten. The work thus emerges as a reflection on contemporaneity, on the stratification of experience, and on the human attempt to leave a lasting mark in an unstable world.
The writing, fragmented and discontinuous, presents itself as a flow of thought engraved in time rather than narrated, while the worn images and words in the lower section emerge as remnants of a collective memory. The work thus moves between communication and silence, between expressive urgency and the impossibility of being truly heard, transforming the artistic gesture into an act of permanent sending.
Elisabetta Accoto
Size: 100x40cm
Technique: Mixed media on metal support/metal powder/acrylic/experimental print/engraving
Year: 2025
The work is created on a metal sheet, a durable, industrial medium, introducing a tension between material hardness and the fragility of thought. The metal surface, marked, scratched, and layered, becomes an active part of the composition: it reflects light, retains abrasions, and preserves the traces of time like an urban skin.
The handwritten text in the upper section appears more like a mental flow engraved than written, an accumulation of existential reflections that engage with the coldness of the support. The long central form, organic and chromatically vibrant, flows through the metal like an emotional flow, a line of resistance that breaks the rigidity of the material.
In the lower section, worn images and writings ("There Was an America") emerge as remnants of historical and cultural memory, partially erased but impossible to completely eliminate. The metal amplifies the sense of permanence and conflict: what is painted can be covered, but not forgotten. The work thus emerges as a reflection on contemporaneity, on the stratification of experience, and on the human attempt to leave a lasting mark in an unstable world.
The writing, fragmented and discontinuous, presents itself as a flow of thought engraved in time rather than narrated, while the worn images and words in the lower section emerge as remnants of a collective memory. The work thus moves between communication and silence, between expressive urgency and the impossibility of being truly heard, transforming the artistic gesture into an act of permanent sending.
Elisabetta Accoto
