work
gioco di carte
| category | Painting |
| subject | Abstract |
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| base | 200 cm |
| height | 70 cm |
| depth | 4 cm |
| year | 2020 |
The painting Card Game wants to enclose within it the monotony and temporal cancellation that the first lockdown of March-May 2021 imposed on Italian families.
In fact, in the artist's house it was routine to play cards together to find and maintain family intimacy. At many times of the day, the family gathered around a table to play. This forced repetition, however, resulted in the emptying of any affective function that the sporadic games played before the pandemic had. Keeping on repeating the same game constantly meant that the monotony not only alienated people from pleasantness, but also involved a distortion of the normal time conception, causing a succession of equal days, strange and confusing compared to life before the pandemic.
In fact, in the artist's house it was routine to play cards together to find and maintain family intimacy. At many times of the day, the family gathered around a table to play. This forced repetition, however, resulted in the emptying of any affective function that the sporadic games played before the pandemic had. Keeping on repeating the same game constantly meant that the monotony not only alienated people from pleasantness, but also involved a distortion of the normal time conception, causing a succession of equal days, strange and confusing compared to life before the pandemic.
