Cutting the Head Off
2022
150.0 x 120.0 cm
francesco moratti (? – 1719)
Discover the works of Francesco Moratti, a renowned Italian artist from Padua known for his captivating Baroque style and historical themes. Explore his legacy and artistic contributions today.
It is the last in a series of works that engage with art history (in this case Judith and Holofernes) from a contemporary perspective. Despite not having any other objective than making it, I am interested in constructing an image permeable to the present and reality and experimenting with how a surface (painting) can awaken something profound, while the same scene has the potential to signify differently in various contexts. First drawn with a finger on a cellphone screen and then transferred to the canvas, in an explicit dialogue with the digital image and with a question about painting in relation to new media and ways of seeing and translating reality. The mounting system incorporates the idea of painting as a three-dimensional object with two faces (canvas stretcher) in contrast to the screen, the idea of weight against the digital archive, and the accumulation of time in a rock against the idea of layers. Things reveal to us what it means to cut the head off.
Informazioni sull'opera
- Titolo: Cutting the Head Off
- Artista: francesco moratti
- Anno: 2022
- Dimensioni originali: 150.0 x 120.0 cm
- Formato: Portrait
- Stato del copyright: Di pubblico dominio
- Palette colori: Pastels
- Intensità del colore: Monochromatic
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