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Snuff Art Project – Guaro (2)
| category | Video |
| subject | Animal |
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| minutes | 0 |
| seconds | 55 |
| year | 2022 |
Snuff Art Project aims to show how a "rebirth" occurs through a "death". Death is given by the physical work of art, burned in front of a video camera; on the other hand, rebirth is constituted by what remains of the work, deprived of its material container.
The video filming its destruction is what reestablishes the phases of this “cycle”, through which time is made to flow backwards and the roles of the "before” and the “after" are reversed. All starts from work’s ash and, in about a minute, we arrive at the definition of a shape that, at first distorted, gradually regroups until it regains its original integrity. This final form represents the work of art reborn in digital format.
Seen from this perspective, the physical death of the work is nothing other than the consequence of a process functional to its rebirth. A reasonable price to pay, if we consider that, by being reborn, the work not only maintains intact its artistic character, but it is richer, thanks to the "added value" of its death.
For this first “Snuff” experience, we asked seven Roman street artists to paint small and dwarfish artworks to be glued on matchboxes, in complete thematic and stylistic freedom. Both matchboxes and artworks were covered in gasoline and torched in front of a video-camera that filmed their incineration. In the editing, clips’ direction was studiously inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
Guaro – Barquisimeto (Venezuela), 1986
Born and raised in Venezuela, he has been living in Italy for many years. His art certainly retains the typical South American culture’s “shamanic” countenance, that translates to the ability on interacting with what lurks beyond the veil of the visible. Totemic animals, dark figures in silent waiting and otherworldly atmospheres characterize his works, made using the most diverse techniques: murals, posters, paintings on canvas, drawings, sculptures.
In 2017, he is among the promoters of the first edition of "Only Street", a project dedicated to street art in the form of a traveling exhibition. In the same year, he participates with a live painting at “Decades”, an event organized by Philobiblon Urban Project at the Guido Reni District in Rome. He has personal and group exhibitions to his credit in some of the main underground galleries of the Italian capital, starting with the Up Urban Prospective Factory.
Technique: acrylic on paper (weight 180g / m2) - single piece.
The video filming its destruction is what reestablishes the phases of this “cycle”, through which time is made to flow backwards and the roles of the "before” and the “after" are reversed. All starts from work’s ash and, in about a minute, we arrive at the definition of a shape that, at first distorted, gradually regroups until it regains its original integrity. This final form represents the work of art reborn in digital format.
Seen from this perspective, the physical death of the work is nothing other than the consequence of a process functional to its rebirth. A reasonable price to pay, if we consider that, by being reborn, the work not only maintains intact its artistic character, but it is richer, thanks to the "added value" of its death.
For this first “Snuff” experience, we asked seven Roman street artists to paint small and dwarfish artworks to be glued on matchboxes, in complete thematic and stylistic freedom. Both matchboxes and artworks were covered in gasoline and torched in front of a video-camera that filmed their incineration. In the editing, clips’ direction was studiously inverted in order to enable us to “sublimate” the digital rebirth of the works burned by fire.
Guaro – Barquisimeto (Venezuela), 1986
Born and raised in Venezuela, he has been living in Italy for many years. His art certainly retains the typical South American culture’s “shamanic” countenance, that translates to the ability on interacting with what lurks beyond the veil of the visible. Totemic animals, dark figures in silent waiting and otherworldly atmospheres characterize his works, made using the most diverse techniques: murals, posters, paintings on canvas, drawings, sculptures.
In 2017, he is among the promoters of the first edition of "Only Street", a project dedicated to street art in the form of a traveling exhibition. In the same year, he participates with a live painting at “Decades”, an event organized by Philobiblon Urban Project at the Guido Reni District in Rome. He has personal and group exhibitions to his credit in some of the main underground galleries of the Italian capital, starting with the Up Urban Prospective Factory.
Technique: acrylic on paper (weight 180g / m2) - single piece.
