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Snuff Art Project – Jesus.t.t. (1)
| category | Video |
| subject | Human figure |
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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.
Jesus.t.t. - 1989
He is a prolific artist, author of numerous murals, posters, stickers, acrylics on canvas and board. His art is able to harmoniously mix aesthetic canons that apparently look very different. The language of the tattoo counterbalances a Byzantine ancestry figuration, which in his works is manifested through an apothegmatic sign and a shining chromatism, close to saturation.
His works were paraded in solo and group exhibitions. To name a few: "ONLY STREET" (Zanon Gallery - Rome, 2018), "STARS: from Street Art to Space Art" (Palazzo Velli - Rome, 2021), "Start" (Orsini Chapel - Rome, 2021) and "Icon" (Up Urban Prospetive Factory - Rome, 2022).
Technique: acrylic on paper (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.
Jesus.t.t. - 1989
He is a prolific artist, author of numerous murals, posters, stickers, acrylics on canvas and board. His art is able to harmoniously mix aesthetic canons that apparently look very different. The language of the tattoo counterbalances a Byzantine ancestry figuration, which in his works is manifested through an apothegmatic sign and a shining chromatism, close to saturation.
His works were paraded in solo and group exhibitions. To name a few: "ONLY STREET" (Zanon Gallery - Rome, 2018), "STARS: from Street Art to Space Art" (Palazzo Velli - Rome, 2021), "Start" (Orsini Chapel - Rome, 2021) and "Icon" (Up Urban Prospetive Factory - Rome, 2022).
Technique: acrylic on paper (180g/ m2) - single piece.
