Iconoplastica is a series of 10 shaped plywood panels (each measuring approximately 60x80 cm). They are partly hand cut and partly laser cut, and spray painted to reproduce "in real life" some of the digital images from my 2017 Instagram project.
This operation represents the final phase of a composition exercise that actually starts off with hand sketching on paper. The sketches are then made into vectors and digitally coloured to be posted to Instagram. With Iconoplastica they return to the real world maintaining a strong trace of their digital passage. Formal research is inspired, actually more in the intention than in the aesthetics, by the work of Neapolitan artist Lucio Del Pezzo. An explicit homage to him is made with a tenth piece, composed around the idea of his “Casellario” works.
The Iconoplastica series was developed for the Offlying show, first held in Imola at Tales of Art gallery where nine of the ten panels were exhibited.
This operation represents the final phase of a composition exercise that actually starts off with hand sketching on paper. The sketches are then made into vectors and digitally coloured to be posted to Instagram. With Iconoplastica they return to the real world maintaining a strong trace of their digital passage. Formal research is inspired, actually more in the intention than in the aesthetics, by the work of Neapolitan artist Lucio Del Pezzo. An explicit homage to him is made with a tenth piece, composed around the idea of his “Casellario” works.
The Iconoplastica series was developed for the Offlying show, first held in Imola at Tales of Art gallery where nine of the ten panels were exhibited.
“Maluc, no hands!”
71x56 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
71x56 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Stairway to Anguria Paradise”
71x75 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
71x75 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Bioself food”
59x67 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
59x67 cm
spray paint on hand cut plywood panel,
2018.
“When the Munel hit your eye”
65x79 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
65x79 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Redskin Universo”
85x67 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
85x67 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Proni island” (a.k.a. “Coni island”)
65x80 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
65x80 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Rampant Lawsuit”
60x78 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
60x78 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Ultraviolet Curva Tosa”
76x65 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
76x65 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Buban Gump”
80x58 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
80x58 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
“Not untitled” (scasellario)
89x91 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
89x91 cm
spray paint on laser cut plywood panel,
2018.
pictures by:
-Lucia Pola
-Lucia Pola
-Marco Chiarini (Tales of Art gallery)
-me
-me
