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E come Ecce Homo, E come Eccitazione
| category | Painting |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure, Abstract |
| tags | bodyshaming, Gesù, joker, Social, jesus |
| base | 50 cm |
| height | 50 cm |
| depth | 4 cm |
| year | 2024 |
Acrylic on canvas
Unique work
Chance generates art, and art generates chance
The relationship between chance and art has been a debated topic in the artistic world for a long time. Many artists used the element of chance as part of the creative process, leading to surprising and unexpected results, and enabling the creation of unique and original works.
Let’s consider Jackson Pollock’s dripping technique, which gives way to unpredictability creating magnificent artistic expression.
But what if chance was the determining factor of a painting’s subject, rather than the casualty of the painting action? What would happen then?
Can art be generated by chance? And if so, can art, in turn, generate chance in return?
These are the questions that launched my new project, which involves the creations of paintings based on a random element, or rather, two random elements.
The idea is to use social media to collect words, based on the initial letter I propose.
Through a random drawing, I select two among those words, they will determinate the creation of the artwork not before having analyzed, studied and processed these terms, in order to become something that makes sense.
So, in this case, the draw of two words which have been gifted me, effectively generates art but, on the contrary, art does not generate chance because each piece beholds its own message, its own story and reason, which implies a process of thought and selection.
E come Ecce Homo, E come Eccitazione
Chance generates art, art generates chance.
Ecce Homo and Excitement the two words drawn for the fifth painting.
Behold the man. With this expression, in the Gospel of John (19.5), Pilate presents the scourged Christ crowned with thorns to the crowd.
So why the Joker played by Joaquin Phoenix? Because unlike his predecessors, he is not a criminal disfigured by acid who becomes a psychopathic serial killer-terrorist obsessed with the man-bat, but a depressed dreamer mistreated by society, who continually swallows bitter morsels. He is a mentally devastated man who, precisely in his humanity, tries to improve his fragile condition as a human being.
But he does not succeed, as he is rejected and mocked by society as a whole, which shows itself incapable of understanding and empathising with anyone who has any difficulty, showing itself cruel to those who are different.
In our present day, he is sadly the perfect subject to be filmed with his mobile phone, being beaten up, being insulted or mocked, going mad in one of his fits. Filmed and thrown into the digital world where social platforms act as amplifiers of insults and offence, facilitating, through anonymity, the mockery of the person targeted.
If the idiots, today's Pontius Pilate, play their part in showing the victim, it would matter little if there were not the crowd shouting: crucify him. And so, the mass, in a growing excitement, watches, comments and sends likes decreeing, unfortunately often, the condemnation.
Unique work
Chance generates art, and art generates chance
The relationship between chance and art has been a debated topic in the artistic world for a long time. Many artists used the element of chance as part of the creative process, leading to surprising and unexpected results, and enabling the creation of unique and original works.
Let’s consider Jackson Pollock’s dripping technique, which gives way to unpredictability creating magnificent artistic expression.
But what if chance was the determining factor of a painting’s subject, rather than the casualty of the painting action? What would happen then?
Can art be generated by chance? And if so, can art, in turn, generate chance in return?
These are the questions that launched my new project, which involves the creations of paintings based on a random element, or rather, two random elements.
The idea is to use social media to collect words, based on the initial letter I propose.
Through a random drawing, I select two among those words, they will determinate the creation of the artwork not before having analyzed, studied and processed these terms, in order to become something that makes sense.
So, in this case, the draw of two words which have been gifted me, effectively generates art but, on the contrary, art does not generate chance because each piece beholds its own message, its own story and reason, which implies a process of thought and selection.
E come Ecce Homo, E come Eccitazione
Chance generates art, art generates chance.
Ecce Homo and Excitement the two words drawn for the fifth painting.
Behold the man. With this expression, in the Gospel of John (19.5), Pilate presents the scourged Christ crowned with thorns to the crowd.
So why the Joker played by Joaquin Phoenix? Because unlike his predecessors, he is not a criminal disfigured by acid who becomes a psychopathic serial killer-terrorist obsessed with the man-bat, but a depressed dreamer mistreated by society, who continually swallows bitter morsels. He is a mentally devastated man who, precisely in his humanity, tries to improve his fragile condition as a human being.
But he does not succeed, as he is rejected and mocked by society as a whole, which shows itself incapable of understanding and empathising with anyone who has any difficulty, showing itself cruel to those who are different.
In our present day, he is sadly the perfect subject to be filmed with his mobile phone, being beaten up, being insulted or mocked, going mad in one of his fits. Filmed and thrown into the digital world where social platforms act as amplifiers of insults and offence, facilitating, through anonymity, the mockery of the person targeted.
If the idiots, today's Pontius Pilate, play their part in showing the victim, it would matter little if there were not the crowd shouting: crucify him. And so, the mass, in a growing excitement, watches, comments and sends likes decreeing, unfortunately often, the condemnation.
