work
Oracular Skullpture(s) series
| category | Sculpture |
| subject | Nature, Animal |
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| base | 24 cm |
| height | 54 cm |
| depth | 40 cm |
| year | 2019 |
Technique and material: real skull of bos taurus, sanitization and preparation of the bone, with fine-tuned personale processing. Edition 1 of a first series of 10 of different skulls.
NOTE: ALL SKULLS ARE ETHICALLY AND LEGALLY SOURCED, WITH PAPER WORKS WHERE NEEDED.
Poised between art and design, "Oracular Skullptures" is the first series of 10 deliciously macabre and beautifully grotesque real animal skulls lacquered in a special blend of pastel colours with horns and/or tusks enriched with pure golden leaf and sometimes gems. A part of raw bone and/or both dental arches will be always visible.
Each skull is an oracle: if you ask, he will respond. If respected, it will bring luck, wealth, knowledge, love or wisdom.
In this project, the animal skull has abdicated its natural function in favour of a cultural one, as transformed by the artistic intervention. Each colour is my interpretation of the animal character. Somehow these Skullptures stand in a thin line between sacred and profane. The shiny surface recalls the spray painting of a car giving the skulls a “toyish” look; at the same time they seem magical creatures or astral beings coming from the outer space.
Included in the exhibition “Where is my sacred?” @fondazionepastificiocerere (Rome) dec 2018-Jan 2019.
In the future, I will make entire skeletons, even combining different species, creating a "chimerical" series. The skulls will appear as the remains of biological experiments conducted by other space civilizations and mysteriously found.
Read more here > http://tommasofagioli.com/ideas/focus-on-oracular-skullptures/
NOTE: ALL SKULLS ARE ETHICALLY AND LEGALLY SOURCED, WITH PAPER WORKS WHERE NEEDED.
Poised between art and design, "Oracular Skullptures" is the first series of 10 deliciously macabre and beautifully grotesque real animal skulls lacquered in a special blend of pastel colours with horns and/or tusks enriched with pure golden leaf and sometimes gems. A part of raw bone and/or both dental arches will be always visible.
Each skull is an oracle: if you ask, he will respond. If respected, it will bring luck, wealth, knowledge, love or wisdom.
In this project, the animal skull has abdicated its natural function in favour of a cultural one, as transformed by the artistic intervention. Each colour is my interpretation of the animal character. Somehow these Skullptures stand in a thin line between sacred and profane. The shiny surface recalls the spray painting of a car giving the skulls a “toyish” look; at the same time they seem magical creatures or astral beings coming from the outer space.
Included in the exhibition “Where is my sacred?” @fondazionepastificiocerere (Rome) dec 2018-Jan 2019.
In the future, I will make entire skeletons, even combining different species, creating a "chimerical" series. The skulls will appear as the remains of biological experiments conducted by other space civilizations and mysteriously found.
Read more here > http://tommasofagioli.com/ideas/focus-on-oracular-skullptures/
