"The yellow flowers". Oil on wood panel, 45 x 60 cm, 2015. ORIGINAL ARTWORK SOLD (sold in Dallas, USA, with Zatista):
https://www.zatista.com/product/details/49322/the-yellow-flowers
lunedì 22 maggio 2017
The yellow flowers
"The yellow flowers". Oil on wood panel, 45 x 60 cm, 2015. ORIGINAL ARTWORK SOLD (sold in Dallas, USA, with Zatista):
https://www.zatista.com/product/details/49322/the-yellow-flowers
domenica 30 aprile 2017
Psychedelic octopus
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Oil on Canson paper (290 g/mq),
28 x 50 cm, 2016. Original paintings sold.
The
fantastic world of animals. When I was a kid I went crazy for these small
encyclopedias for children, where all the animal species were cataloged, and
were represented with drawings rather than with images. Those drawings,
although very detailed, left much to the imagination. It was as if some white
space at the edges of the image were put there on purpose, to allow the viewer
to complete, with the imagination, the work of describing that animal. Perhaps
it is from this childhood passion that comes to me a certain obsession for
animals, and a vice that leads me, starting from a detail or from a certain peculiarity, to exaggerate, to
overstate the decorations and the colors, to allow the polyps to emit colored
and psychedelic inks. Originals available for sale:
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lunedì 17 aprile 2017
Cities
The city on the river, 30 x 40 cm, oil on canvas, 1991.
Red city, 21 x 30 cm, ink on paper, 1997.
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Red city, 21 x 30 cm, ink on paper, 1997.
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mercoledì 5 aprile 2017
The house of the haruspex
The house
of the haruspex
Oil on canvas, 2011, 100 x 70 cm . Original sold.
The haruspex predicts the
future by interpreting signs
that he is able to discover hidden in the bowels of
animals. The place of his work
is bare, half way between the shop of a
dealer and a pagan temple. The large bowls, which
contain the remains of animals butchered for the
prophecy, are the tools of his
work. The soothsayer is sad. To him falls
the task of sacrificing innocent
animals, for an oracle that says
nothing that is not already known.
domenica 26 marzo 2017
Alphabet
From the series “Alphabet”, china ink on paper.
20 x 20 cm, 2001 .
A barcode
is the graphical representation of a series of numbers. What does creates the
aesthetics of a bar code? It comes from lines, their thickness, the spacing.We can think of it as a language with its compositional
rules, its grammar and its syntax.
I imagined to isolate these rules, separating them from the original purpose for which they were created, and I
tried to change them gradually to invent a new
language and perhaps new meanings.
giovedì 16 marzo 2017
Something in the snow
Something in the snow
Oil on
canvas, 2014, 80 X 70 cm .
“I found a
dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white
heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a
white piece of rigid satin cloth -
Assorted
characters of death and blight
Mixed ready
to begin the morning right,
Like the
ingredients of a witches’ broth -
A snow-drop
spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead
wings carried like a paper kite.
What had
that flower to do with being white,
The wayside
blue and innocent heal-all?
What
brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered
the white moth thither in the night?
What but
design of darkness to appall? - -
If design
govern in a thing so small.”
Design, by
Robert Frost. 1922.
sabato 4 marzo 2017
Erminia and Ida in the fields
"Erminia and Ida in the fields". Oil on cardboard, 85 x 56 cm, 2016. Original and prints available for sale:
http://crated.com/art/113161/ida-and-erminia-in-the-fields-by-federicocortese?product=FP&size=8%7C11&frame=BF&edge=250MA
http://crated.com/art/113161/ida-and-erminia-in-the-fields-by-federicocortese?product=FP&size=8%7C11&frame=BF&edge=250MA
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