Book@rt – Svjetlan Junakovic , Ti racconto l’arte del ‘900

Emanuela Pigliacelli — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:34:46 +0000

A curious travel across contemporary art history throughout 16 stories which Svjetlan Junakovic, author of the texts and charming illustrations enriching the volume, employs to disclose his singular collection of objects, photographs, documents, which are supposed to belong to great 20th century artists. A book for both adults and children that, as a time machine, brings us back in time when Picasso used to go to school, Grosz used to scribble his dictionary, Matisse used to write to Father Christmas, Modigliani used to play with sand, Chagall used to look up at flying kites, Magritte used to write on a dream book, Giacometti used to bite his colored pencils. By dreaming up these famous characters’ childhood, the author is trying to trace the germ of their artistic genius at the outset of this misunderstood art as contemporary art actually is. Completely made up stories help adults to stay a little younger with fantasy and irony, but especially they intrigue and draw a younger public’s attention closer to the concepts at the base of last century artistic movements: a Russian Doll as the cause of Malevič’s Suprematism, a theft as the cause of Picasso’s Cubism, a chessboard as the cause of Mondrian’s Neo-plasticism, a malfunctioning polaroid camera as the cause of Warhol’s Pop Art. With the employment of a bizarre, simple and effective language younger people as well can familiarize with contemporary art and, when looking at a black square over a white background, they won’t shout out “I can do this!”.

Info

• Title: Ti racconto l’arte del ‘900

• Author: Svjetlan Junakovic

• Editor: Artebambini

• Publication Year: 2011

• Price: 18,50 €

• Pages: 45

Art & Adv – Marco Rea

Emanuela Pigliacelli — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:34:26 +0000

Since the late Nineteenth Century, the billboard, emblem of modernity, has invaded the walls of the great capitals. An urban language that has since become an integral part of the artistic language and it has inspired several authors. Today, even more, the all-present intrusiveness of advertising has made these images almost invisible to our eyes. Marco Rea, born in 1975, attempts to give new life to the figures that populate the world of contemporary marketing using the billboard as a support and appropriating a process he defines “inverse” to the street art: he doesn’t bring the art in the street, but the street in the art.

Of his beginning near to the practice of graffiti remains the technique of spray paint that uses expertly to intervene directly on the faces and the bodies of fashion models. Flipping through the glossy magazines he has realized that these figures, aseptic but alive, represent for him the model par excellence to start. In each work launches a challenge with the case: the subjects are the ones that someone else has chosen for him, the poses have been carefully studied by advertising photographers of fashion.

The artist’s work, therefore, aims to return the unicum‘s aura to an object that has been reproduced in thousands of copies. The models now appear as distant figures, surrounded by a dimension without space or time. However, through the veil of paint, Marco Rea instills personality and soul in those subjects otherwise so featureless: the eyes, dark and empty, without pupils, give to his women an unreadable and enigmatic expression that allows the viewer to look at himself in those eyes and take possession of that portrait.

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Book@rt – Svjetlan Junakovic , Ti racconto l’arte del ‘900

Art & Adv – Marco Rea