Sguardi antichi

In this painting, the technique obtained with air guns to create the stone effect can be appreciated. The shadows made with the airbrush are then the real protagonists of this work, able to give it an effect of depth and three-dimensionality.
To complete and accentuate the impression of being in front of a real rock sculpture, the base surface was made with a plaster, applied in an uneven way.
It is the reproduction of one of the numerous faces present in the temple of Angkor Bayon, in Cambodia: the identity of the face reproduced here is mysterious, and subject to different interpretations.
At the height of the neck there are circular symbols, containing in turn concentric circles that want to represent the origin, the expansion of the primordial sound, not surprisingly placed right in correspondence with the organ used for the voice.
Just as a stone thrown into the water generates the shape of many circles that expand on the calm surface, so the sound expands in the air, creating the same shape, but invisible to the human eye.

Mixed Medium: Airbrush, paintbrush, acrylic paints.
On rigid panel
Base: cement, plaster
Original work

Collection "Golden age"