HOMAGE TO THE HISTORY OF ART
-two-color photo-serigraphs on cotton paper-.
According to Gombrich “great works of art seem different every time one contemplates them. They seem as inexhaustible and unpredictable as human beings…To enjoy these works we must have a clean mind, capable of perceiving any hint and echoing any hidden harmony”, this series of prints is therefore, my interpretation by carefully observing each painting, letting myself be freely carried away by each scene.
Creating a kind of Wormhole*, I connect the historically relevant artwork, with what could be a present day hand, with a contemporary intervention. Thus, the young woman with the pearl earring by Vermeer is asking for fire to light her cigarette, a lost hand with a lantern in the forest by Klimt, the Van Eyck couple poses for the reflex camera, the young woman on the train by Hopper reads herself, a brandy in the cabaret of Degas, a full house with the card players of Cézanne, the blade passing to the suicide of Seneca and the sunflowers of Van Gogh being delicately arranged, are my glances, my imaginary ones that the History of Art inspires me. Endless series…