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[2012-03-26 12:51:51 +0000 UTC]
(Italy)
# Statistics
Favourites: 124; Deviations: 372; Watchers: 204
Watching: 114; Pageviews: 11886; Comments Made: 86; Friends: 114
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: carol ramaFavorite movies: zazie dans le metro
Favorite bands / musical artists: tori amos
Favorite books: if this is a man, arturo's island, lions and shadows, in cold blood
Favorite writers: primo levi, elsa morante, alberto moravia, christopher isherwood, truman capote
Other Interests: sex, gardening
# About me
I was born in 1971 in Turin, where I live and work as an independent artist and as an architect, collaborating with several design offices.In my artistic research I am mainly interested in the study of language.
Every language is created with the purpose of communicating information. But each language also has formal rules stemming from the purpose for which it is used. Is it possible to isolate from one language only its formal rules, as if they were a decoration? And what happens if I apply that structure to another language? How its meaning will change? What will remain of the original meaning of the language?
When we consider a road map or a map of the territory we note that they contain different information that are represented by different means, according to the purpose for which they were created: each time we find colors, symbols and words that recall a precise meaning. What happens if I take these techniques of representation, these symbols, and take off the scope for which they were created and mingle them with each other? Will it be for the reader a text in a foreign language, that is meaningless, or through the world of associations and references that each of us possesses, will generate a new language?
In another example, a bar code is nothing but the representation of a series of numbers through lines of different thickness. Is it possible to extrapolate from that language his formal structure in order to develop a new language? This new language will be able to generate new meanings? To do this you can work on formal rules, studying possible changes and developments, increasingly moving away from the point of departure.
In my drawings I try to apply this process of work. The subjects of my study are the cartographic representation, the figures in the manuals of medicine, the sheets of the herbals with their rules for the classification of the plants, the ancient manuals that collect all the known form of real and imaginary animals, the facial expressions and physiognomy, the pornography, the structure of flags, and so on. All these are languages owning their own lexicon; my trial is to isolate and reinvent that lexicon.
In the oil paintings something different happens. I usually paint on canvas when I need to tell a story. Often this story takes origin form something that is related to my personal experience, or from my real life, something I’ve read, someone i’ve known. This is why the most part of my canvases aren’t part of a series but are isolated narrations.
My preferred techniques are classic oils on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings that I paint afterwards with oil colors. In both cases the work proceeds always sedimenting several layers one on the other.
My original artworks are also available for sale at the following link:
www.saatchionline.com/ico71
# Comments
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Thank you very much!
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thanks so much!
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Thank you so much for your support! I appreciate it greatly 
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A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA, RUSSIA!
HAVE LOTS OF LOVE AND INSPIRATION!
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Thanks so much for the FAVES and the
WATCH.
Richard
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Your artworks are a revelation to me. I will spend some time looking at as many of them as I can, but even before I do, I can tell that you are a very special artist. And it's not just flattery. Greetings to the gorgeous Italy from the beautiful Crimea )
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Thank you for the watch and favs, much appreciated.
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Welcome to 
Thank you for your joining this group and hope you will have fun
~knight-of-sand
Founder of masters-of-painting
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Thank you for joining ArtHasSoul We are very happy to have you within our community. We are here to feature and promote as much art as possible, as you can see from our home page. Our group is all about artists and their amazing work.
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Please feel free to browse our galleries and submit your works. You may submit up to 2 works of art per day! We have a vast gallery with a wide variety of folders to accommodate artists with multiple talents!
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Wow, thanks for all the favourites! Particularly since they led me to your amazing work! 
<3
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actually, I'm quite a lazy user... I should apply here more and better!
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Hah! That was like me when I was on Dial-up! 
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