Abandoned room with the Mole Antonelliana

An original piece from the series "Abandoned rooms", oil on canvas. 40 x 70 cm, 2018. Original sold.

This series of paintings was inspired by the metaphysical landscapes of De Chirico. I have always been fascinated by their clear vision of the architecture, with the precise design of the shadows, almost anticipating the modern use of three-dimensional modeling software. In the way I feel, however, more introverted and almost unsociable, the outer space is transformed into a closed one, private and protected, from which the human presence is totally gone away. In those rooms then, it may happen that some strange objects and some unexpected decorations appear, suggesting that the person who lives there has overcome the lack of relationship to the outside world with the richness and complexity of his inner world.

This original painting is available 

https://lnx.federicocortese.com/2018/03/02/abandoned-rooms/

Berlin Alexanderplatz

(original sold)

Berlin Alexanderplatz. Three paintings from the series “Windows”, oil on wood panel, 35 x 25 cm.

The facade of a building is a sort of skin for it. A dress, a kind of embroidery where the alternation of elements (full and empty, windows, materials, structural and decorative elements) gives a different rhythm every time. In my travels I always wonder if it is possible to discover this rhythm and its variations, and if it is specific for that place, or whether modernity has made us all irreparably the same. But probably behind this interest there is also a sort of voyeurism. Who lives in these rooms? Which eyes glance from there? What kind of stories and tragedies hide in those houses?

This original paintings are available for sale at the price of 360 US$ each one (shipping included). Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work, the sales prices of individual works, or the availability for work on graphics.

The landfill of Turin

An original piece from the series “The earth seen from the space”, oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm, 2017.

Original painting sold.

The first time I used Google Earth was fantastic. I could not believe that someone had photographed
the entire planet, and that the exploration of this world was accessible to all. Browsing by chance
I discovered amazing scenery, looking at the city streets from far away I could accomplish
wonderful virtual travels. I discover unexpected color blends at the mouths of the rivers or along
the coast of the sea, shades that make uncertain the border between land and water. The cultivated
fields create a dense mosaic of colors. The view from a great distance reduces the details and makes
possible a new form of representation of the landscape. Basically, the only thing that is changed is
the point of view.

Brasilian Carnival

CARNIVAL - from the series “Please do not kill butterflies”, pins and oil on paper, 34 x 47 cm, 2017. ORIGINAL SOLD.

http://www.federicocortese.com/2017/11/02/new-butterflies-in-town/

Silk

From the series “Extrusions”, oil and  fabric on cardboard. 40 x 40 cm, 2017.

This series of works was originally born from the following idea: I imagine a sign on the paper, like a cut, from which other signs, shapes and colors emerge, as if it were a sort of  material capable of generating the painting, a sort of Pandora's pot of painting. By the time this initial idea has become more complicated. That sign on paper came out of paper, it has become three-dimensional, a piece of fabric on the sheet, a sort of pocket from which the paint spills, and eventually other simple objects spill, such as little glass beads, that suddenly become precious just because they are now on the surface of a work of art.

Urban surreal

Volcano in Los Angeles (original sold)

Civic Center in New York, with Matrioska

From the series “Red Star”, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, 2017.

Franz Kafka never moved from his Prague. For the setting of his novel "Amerika",
he probably used the notions  that he took from the newspapers and from his literary
knowledge. Then he filled the gaps left by that information with his imagination, inventing
a really comprehensive and credible setting. Today he wouldn’t have this problem, because
the network provides us with detailed and substantial information on anything. The
universal knowledge is available to all. And everyone, sooner or later run into the same
two problems: this information is too much, we do not need it! (till  the point that often we
remain submerged and we do not know anymore what we were looking for). And then, how
do we verify its authenticity? The virtual reproduction of the real world offered by the internet
is so plausible, to make hard this verification. And often that virtual world is more attractive
than the reality, to the point that this verification is not so important. Is this news true? Is this
picture real? Or is it a montage? No matter, as long as it catches our attention. And this red
star? Wasn’t it on the domes of the Kremlin? What is it doing on a skyscraper in New York?
No matter, it's good enough ...

These original paintings are available for sale at the price of 2750 US$ each one.
Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work, the sales prices
of individual works, the availability for work on graphics.

Memories of Turin

from the series “Houses on the water”, oil on thick paper, 50 x 37 cm, 2016. Original paintings sold.

When, in my holidays, I go to visit a seaside town or a river town, it often happens that I am involved into the classic tourist trip on the boat, or vessel. Such an experience, by definition, is a little superficial: the distance from the coast, the movement, the limited time, all these elements combined together make the perception confused. But at the same time, perhaps for the fact that the focus can not dwell deeply on anything specific, the end of this experience gives a reminder of the whole, that could reveal the spirit of that place. It 's true, the details are confused, the facades of the buildings overlap, we are no longer sure if the front of that palace was on the Grand Canal or the Giudecca, but probably at the end of the journey, that will remain our most intense memory of Venice.