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Snuff Art Project – Orev (3)
| category | Video |
| subject | Abstract |
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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.
Orev – Rome, 1996
Her works are identified by a handful of lines that, never getting tangled, give shape to a collection of “faceless” characters with anthropomorphic features. The thick and marked stroke she uses loads his works - mainly murals and posters - with a plasticity that seems to make them emerge from the surfaces in which they are confined. She says about her art: “Using sprays and markers on posters or walls, I draw my way of seeing the world. These faceless characters are the result of a process of introspection, born from the need to focus on an expressive vision in which to recognize myself as an artist. I found this vision at “the roots of the sign”.
As a street artist, she has been operational since 2019. Her debut in galleries takes place in 2022, with the participation at the collective “SUMMER UP”, at the Up Urban Prospective Factory in Rome.
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.
Orev – Rome, 1996
Her works are identified by a handful of lines that, never getting tangled, give shape to a collection of “faceless” characters with anthropomorphic features. The thick and marked stroke she uses loads his works - mainly murals and posters - with a plasticity that seems to make them emerge from the surfaces in which they are confined. She says about her art: “Using sprays and markers on posters or walls, I draw my way of seeing the world. These faceless characters are the result of a process of introspection, born from the need to focus on an expressive vision in which to recognize myself as an artist. I found this vision at “the roots of the sign”.
As a street artist, she has been operational since 2019. Her debut in galleries takes place in 2022, with the participation at the collective “SUMMER UP”, at the Up Urban Prospective Factory in Rome.
Technique: acrylic on paper (weight 180g / m2) – single piece.
