work
Sorpresa
| category | Painting |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | kinder sorpresa, ovetto kinder, regalo, gioia, sorpresa |
| base | 40 cm |
| height | 50 cm |
| depth | 2 cm |
| year | 2024 |
Oil on canvas, one-of-a-kind piece.
What works like this attempt to do is to elevate to something more meaningful a moment that often, when we experience it, doesn’t seem important at all. A particular childhood moment, for example, or a moment in our life today that brings us back to those childhood times—bringing us back to relive something we thought we had lost. We thought it wasn’t important, but perhaps it was essential. The first time our mother bought us a Kinder Surprise, we probably didn’t even remember it until one day, when we already felt grown up, we experienced that same feeling again. Trying to evoke that sensation through the language of painting is what I attempted to do here.
What works like this attempt to do is to elevate to something more meaningful a moment that often, when we experience it, doesn’t seem important at all. A particular childhood moment, for example, or a moment in our life today that brings us back to those childhood times—bringing us back to relive something we thought we had lost. We thought it wasn’t important, but perhaps it was essential. The first time our mother bought us a Kinder Surprise, we probably didn’t even remember it until one day, when we already felt grown up, we experienced that same feeling again. Trying to evoke that sensation through the language of painting is what I attempted to do here.
