My most recent paintings are reflecting on the shift of the meaning of popular words like “labour”, “work”, “money”, including the change in the relations between mankind and economy. So if we say “work”, it’s probably not the same thing that used to be meant by our grands. I think we can now read in a new way that old pamphlet written by K. Malevic about the concepts of “laziness”, truth and liberty.
I’ve chosen a young, beardless Karl Marx as the same subject for these paintings. The first three portraits I made are overlapped on the same canvas, one over the other, deleting the previous ones. Sometimes I mount them in exhibitions as if they were sculptures. I like the forces of invisibility, especially in painting.
Three portraits of the beardless young Marx, overlapped
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Superstructure, 2015
51556 svizzeri emigrati in Italia al 2015, secondo l’Ufficio Federale di Statistica (Locarno, 2016)
Marxxx, Red Marx with hammer and no sickle
Alfabeto (N)
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Marxxx, 2015
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Window, 2015
Falso trattato di estetica (quadrato rosa), Palermo 2016
Refurbished painting, 2016
Serie IBAN, 2017
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Cloud Cane
Refurbished painting, 2016
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015
Marxxx (first layer), 2015
Refurbished paintings, 2016
Superstructure, 2015
51556 svizzeri emigrati in Italia al 2015, secondo l’Ufficio Federale di Statistica (Locarno, 2016)
Inattività come verità effettiva dell’uomo
Making a whole, fresco, 2008
oog, oil on paper, 2015
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015
Making a whole, fresco, 2008
Upside-down turtle my my mother’s bracelet, 2015
Falso trattato di estetica (quadrato rosa), Palermo 2016
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015 (at Galerie Daniel Boeri, Monaco, 2017)
141, oil on paper, 2015
