work
L’attesa
| category | Painting |
| subject | Human figure, Political / Social |
| tags | covid, attesa, gianni lucchesi, man, wait |
| base | 70 cm |
| height | 100 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2020 |
The wait
The fear of contagion. The isolation. The compressed space and time of the contemporary world that suddenly expand, become rarefied, slow down until they get stuck in a sort of metaphysical suspension, where waiting becomes an essential component of everyday life: thus, a long, interminable, rarefied line of people and trolleys near any distant supermarket become the emblem of a new condition of being, at the time of the Coronavirus. The fast time of compulsive spending becomes slow, immobile, essential, the hyperactive frenzy becomes slowness, the multidirectional space becomes unique, large and at the same time restricted within the radius of its own shadow.
Everyone is alone, suspended and isolated from the world; he deceives time, closing himself off in his own thoughts or relying on the smartphone, an essential tool that manages to virtually concretize the need for sociality. Out of time and space in his own position, he rediscovers or feels more intensely the simpler and essential aspects of existence: the value of what matters, the affections, the inevitability of life, the smallness of the human being and the grandeur of nature, the regenerating and therapeutic effect of art in general.
Isolation and waiting also become stimuli for thought and creation: the shots stolen live, from the egalitarian position of the artist in the queue, are translated into a vibrant graphic sign, which brings out the diluted bitumen on the almost dazzling white background. of the paper, without beginning or end. A binding, essential and profound icon of contemporaneity in the new dimension of the Coronavirus.
bitumen on paper
The fear of contagion. The isolation. The compressed space and time of the contemporary world that suddenly expand, become rarefied, slow down until they get stuck in a sort of metaphysical suspension, where waiting becomes an essential component of everyday life: thus, a long, interminable, rarefied line of people and trolleys near any distant supermarket become the emblem of a new condition of being, at the time of the Coronavirus. The fast time of compulsive spending becomes slow, immobile, essential, the hyperactive frenzy becomes slowness, the multidirectional space becomes unique, large and at the same time restricted within the radius of its own shadow.
Everyone is alone, suspended and isolated from the world; he deceives time, closing himself off in his own thoughts or relying on the smartphone, an essential tool that manages to virtually concretize the need for sociality. Out of time and space in his own position, he rediscovers or feels more intensely the simpler and essential aspects of existence: the value of what matters, the affections, the inevitability of life, the smallness of the human being and the grandeur of nature, the regenerating and therapeutic effect of art in general.
Isolation and waiting also become stimuli for thought and creation: the shots stolen live, from the egalitarian position of the artist in the queue, are translated into a vibrant graphic sign, which brings out the diluted bitumen on the almost dazzling white background. of the paper, without beginning or end. A binding, essential and profound icon of contemporaneity in the new dimension of the Coronavirus.
bitumen on paper
