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Italy
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 19.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.6 D in
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Oliviero Toscani is a great Italian photographer. He made his successful career working for Benetton family and making controversial and provoking advertissements for Benetton's cloth brands in the 90s. In 1991, Oliviero took a picture of a priest softly kissing a nun. Of course, at that time this created a real scandal, especially for a catholic country like Italy. I was in my early 20s but I remember well all the discussions and arguments on the media. The photo was in fact censored both in Italy and in France. Recently, I went to a Oliviero Toscani exhibition in Pinerolo, little town close to Turin, and I saw again that photo. I decided than to paint it in homage to Oliviero and his peculiar personality.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 15.7 H x 0.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:Italy.
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I am an Italian entrepreneur who has lived for a long time in London but who recently returned to his hometown, Turin. Even though I hadn't pursued art studies, in March 2019 I decided that I needed a change in my life, and wanted to develop my creative side more. So I started taking oil painting lessons at the Pictor Academy where I was lucky to have Aldo Antonietti as a teacher (www.pictor.it/docenti/aldo-antonietti). My painting is essentially figurative and I like to reproduce landscapes and portraits in particular. For me, painting is the best way to immortalize particularly significant and pleasant memories so as to perpetrate the memory in the more distant future. Pablo Picasso said "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary". Since I am also passionate about photography, my 'modus operandi' normally involves recovering one of my photos taken in the past that reminds me of something particularly important or enjoyable to me. Then, starting from the photo, I try to reproduce it on the canvas. Obviously, the process does not lack a certain amount of interpretation of the photo / memory itself so the final effect will never be a mere duplication of the photo. It is my way of transferring my feelings and sensations onto the canvas that that photo / memory rekindles in me.
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