G. Sesia Mixed Media on Wood Italy 2006

Untitled 2006

Code :  ARARCO0151057

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G. Sesia Mixed Media on Wood Italy 2006

Untitled 2006

Code :  ARARCO0151057

not available

G. Sesia Mixed Media on Wood Italy 2006 - Untitled 2006

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Untitled 2006

Artist:  Giovanni Sesia (1955)

Artwork title:  Senza titolo

Age:  Contemporary

Subject:  Composizione

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Mixed Media

Description : Senza titolo

Mixed media on wood. Signed and dated on the back. Born in Magenta, Giovanni Sesia does not define himself as a painter or even a sculptor or photographer, but an "artist". He attended the Brera Academy in Milan and approached painting with paintings with a strong sign and bright colors. After an initial artistic research in abstractionism and the discovery of photography as a technical means to combine with pictorial expressiveness, at the end of the nineties Giovanni Sesia discovers an entire photographic archive of an abandoned psychiatric hospital: fascinated by old photographs, which portray faces and forgotten places, the artist enlarges and re-elaborates them by superimposing backgrounds, pictorial retouches and calligraphic inserts, investigating the theme of madness and bringing to light existences marked by pain and disease, to subtract them from the passage of time and oblivion. The sense of tradition, the warm colors of the earth, browns, ocher and rust, like the writings made with an almost illegible handwriting, become the personal and unmistakable traits even in the works that represent different themes, such as domestic objects, the landscapes, the city, all with a common matrix, the human being and the value of memory. The work is framed.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 79
Width: 54
Depth: 5

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 75
Width: 50

Additional Information

Artist: Giovanni Sesia (1955)

Giovanni Sesia (Magenta, 1955) does not define himself as a painter or even a sculptor or photographer, but an "artist". He attended the Brera Academy in Milan and approached painting with paintings with a strong sign and bright colors. At the end of the nineties, following the discovery of an entire photographic archive of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, fascinated by old photographs, which portray forgotten faces and places, the artist enlarges and reworks them by superimposing backgrounds, pictorial retouching and calligraphic inserts. . Therefore photography is only the occasion and the beginning; painting becomes document and testimony. Selected for the Italian pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, it boasts numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

Age: Contemporary

Contemporary

Subject: Composizione

Artistic technique: Mixed Media

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