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Federico Cortese
landscape with garbage, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2015

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£1,484.89
€1,730.31
CA$2,776.65
A$3,105.85
CHF 1,616.30
MX$38,234.11
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SEK 19,291.90
DKK 12,909.84
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About the Item

Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2015. I’m afraid that I have never seen in my whole life a place that was totally devoid of garbage or waste. Like the majority of people nowadays, I have traveled quite a lot, and in all the places where I've been, even in apparently pristine landscapes, such as high mountain paths or natural parks, there is always the memory of some garbage. Maybe hidden, perhaps barely visible and half buried, faded by the sun and worn out from the weather, mainly plastic, now part of nature. In the countryside of southern Italy, especially in Puglia, just digging in the ground it is very easy to uncover relics of ancient Greek civilization: pieces of amphorae, shards of pottery, coins. It's too easy to say that this was a refined civilization, so that we still consider its waste like works of art, while ours is a barbarian society that submerged the planet of trash. Will we arrive at the point of saying that the difference is only quantitative?... Will it happen, in a near future, that we will come to replace the ruins of antiquity with the scraps of our consumerism? In most of my paintings, both on paper or on canvas, usually my work proceeds with the sedimentation of several layers of pencil drawing or chiaroscuro and oil colors. Often the pencil drawing is repeated over the paint and then again another layer of oil color partially covers it. The final step is always a protecting transparent vernish. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: on the fron left bottom corner :: Canvas :: Landscape :: Original :: Framed: No
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    2015
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    Height: 23.6 in (59.95 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Depth: 0.8 in (2.04 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Yardley, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 517601stDibs: LU802116251482

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