Il Pagliaccio

Oil on canvases with lighting led. The work is made up of two canvases each 80x60 in size and 8cm deep overall. These two canvases remain joined to each other by means of magnets. The canvas on the surface, which is the main image, represents a Clown holding a gift box in front of him, which he offers to a hypothetical spectator. The canvas remains cut at the height of the slot in the gift box, opening a slot that allows you to see what's inside. To the left of the Clown there is a pedestal with a small circus inside a display case. Inside the Pagliaccio there is a second canvas with the word play in most of the languages ​​of the world, illuminated by LED lights. the Pagliaccio, a symbolic figure who tries to find funny situations with intelligence even in difficult moments, reminds all people who have forgotten him that we must "play", we must keep alive that clownish part that can help us in difficult moments. I depicted it as an old decrepit as it is collectively abandoned and that if it is not found it is close to disappearing.