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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51556 svizzeri emigrati in Italia al 2015, secondo l’Ufficio Federale di Statistica (Locarno, 2016)
Marxxx, 2015
Marxxx, Red Marx with hammer and no sickle
Upside-down turtle my my mother’s bracelet, 2015
Refurbished paintings, 2016
Window, 2015
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Making a whole, fresco, 2008
Superstructure, 2015
Serie IBAN, 2017
Marxxx (first layer), 2015
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Falso trattato di estetica (quadrato rosa), Palermo 2016
141, oil on paper, 2015
Superstructure, 2015
Refurbished painting, 2016
Making a whole, fresco, 2008
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015
Quadrato rosa, 2016
Refurbished painting, 2016
oog, oil on paper, 2015
Red Marx with hammer and no sickle, 2015 (at Galerie Daniel Boeri, Monaco, 2017)
Cloud Cane
51556 svizzeri emigrati in Italia al 2015, secondo l’Ufficio Federale di Statistica (Locarno, 2016)
Alfabeto (N)
Falso trattato di estetica (quadrato rosa), Palermo 2016
Inattività come verità effettiva dell’uomo
