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HUMAN BAROQUE FRAME
| category | Photography |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | artcouture, FOTOGRAFIA, rinascimentobarocco , barocco , galleryart , abstractart , italianartists , youngartcollectors , italianartist , newbaroque , curator , gallery , contemporarycurator , bellezza , italianstyle , italia , loadingart , BAROQUEFRAME, baroque , artistitaliani , arteitalia , PIC, DRESSART, BAROQUEHUMANFRAME, beautiful, PHOTO, artcollector , FOTO, staybaroquestayfoolish, arteitaliana |
| base | 200 cm |
| height | 200 cm |
| depth | 5 cm |
| year | 2020 |
VIDEO AND PHOTO PROJECT SHOWN AT:
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
The photographic and video projects in collaboration with Anna Cuzzolin (ph) and Emilio Seri (vh) are stills of a story, they are eclectic and unreal sets, where the use of picto-sculptures, clothes and other inventions come into play , in a dialogue between them, on a theater stage, the protagonists of a human comedy, an eternal metaphor of that of art. In the baroque, colorful atmosphere, irony, glamor and iconography can be recognized which come together in a sort of advertising poster, between pop and fashion. A language that naturally becomes almost transgressive, for that subtle balance between the sacred and the profane to represent universal themes.
HUMAN BAROQUE FRAME:
We are all naked in front of art, all invariably the same and art is ready to dress us in wonder and amazement, to strip us of the evil one to wear the good, to take off the veil of the banal to cover us with original virtues. This is why the naked bodies surround a body covered with the corset-sculpture from the “DRESS ART” series. A human baroque frame that frames a body wearing the sculpture with a democratically covered face. It is an invitation to wear a sign of art, to transform oneself, letting oneself be carried away by stripping one's limits and prejudices in the face of the art that anyone who lets himself be dressed by it wears.
This photographic project is conceptually connected to the installation of the "DRESS ART" series, to the installation " Vanities’ Bonfire " by Savonarola; to the “LOADING ART” series and to the video-photographic project “LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!”. Friar Savonarola and his followers on 7 February 1497 burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, with the famous " Vanities’ Bonfire ", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. And precisely among the vanities of the Savonarola bonfire there were also the precious clothes, represented with the "DRESS ART" series used in the photographic project of the Baroque human frame.
2020, Personal Exhibition "RINASCIMENTO feat. Barocco. LOADING ART" (Palazzo di Sorbello, Perugia, October 2020)
INTRO TO THE WORKS:
If the Renaissance is a proclamation to "seek" lessons from the past, from which to extract new light in the present, on the other hand, the Baroque is a hymn to "wonder", to the extraordinary creative and as such, timeless. These two historical examples can be fused together and well spent as teaching in the contemporary: the resulting synthesis is a RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE where "Amazement" and "Research" elevate man, through art armed with beauty. Beauty becomes man's solicitation, a vehicle for ascent, a stimulus for growth, food for thought. It is a clear invitation to "loading art": a common and essential good with which we have nourished ourselves in the past and continue to nourish ourselves today not only with our eyes ... Let us load ourselves with art, therefore; we must put art in the place it deserves, encouraging the growth of our cultural heritage, as our fathers taught us in the past.
The Baroque and the Renaissance, therefore, do not become a reference to a specific historical period, but a hymn to creativity, research, human intuition. An eternal concept, to be spent in the present. The Renaissance promoted by Lorenzo the Magnificent is just one of the glorious and brilliant historical examples of devotion to art and beauty as a means of growth. In the Renaissance, human intuition was nourished, because they were aware that it was the greatest form of investment in existence. Artistic genius was cultivated; promoting its dissemination to inspire all peoples. And it is an ever-current model, an evergreen example of acumen of extreme simplicity and practicability.
It is the creation of art, understood as a common good, to be preserved and kept alive. This is the message that my works harbor in desires. The days of physical confinement made us aware that nothing will be the same as before. And all the rebirths after the great epidemics are formal renewals, aesthetic renewals, but above all ethical; rebirth of something that is not absolutely necessary for survival, like art, but for this very reason, of extreme importance to survive. So ... LOADING ART!
The photographic and video projects in collaboration with Anna Cuzzolin (ph) and Emilio Seri (vh) are stills of a story, they are eclectic and unreal sets, where the use of picto-sculptures, clothes and other inventions come into play , in a dialogue between them, on a theater stage, the protagonists of a human comedy, an eternal metaphor of that of art. In the baroque, colorful atmosphere, irony, glamor and iconography can be recognized which come together in a sort of advertising poster, between pop and fashion. A language that naturally becomes almost transgressive, for that subtle balance between the sacred and the profane to represent universal themes.
HUMAN BAROQUE FRAME:
We are all naked in front of art, all invariably the same and art is ready to dress us in wonder and amazement, to strip us of the evil one to wear the good, to take off the veil of the banal to cover us with original virtues. This is why the naked bodies surround a body covered with the corset-sculpture from the “DRESS ART” series. A human baroque frame that frames a body wearing the sculpture with a democratically covered face. It is an invitation to wear a sign of art, to transform oneself, letting oneself be carried away by stripping one's limits and prejudices in the face of the art that anyone who lets himself be dressed by it wears.
This photographic project is conceptually connected to the installation of the "DRESS ART" series, to the installation " Vanities’ Bonfire " by Savonarola; to the “LOADING ART” series and to the video-photographic project “LOADING ART TO SAVONAROLA!”. Friar Savonarola and his followers on 7 February 1497 burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, with the famous " Vanities’ Bonfire ", thousands of objects considered impure, sinful, immoral, which in their opinion could generate vanity precisely. Among these, in addition to mirrors, cosmetics, luxurious clothes, also musical instruments, manuscripts, numerous drawings and paintings including those by Botticelli. And precisely among the vanities of the Savonarola bonfire there were also the precious clothes, represented with the "DRESS ART" series used in the photographic project of the Baroque human frame.
