Federico Cortese

memory of Saint Peterburg, Nevskji Prospekrt, Painting, Oil on Paper

2016

This painting is part of a series of works about the city of Rome :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ...

An original piece from the series "Code", oil on paper, 35 x 35 cm, 2018. The European travelers who made the grand tour in Italy in the nineteenth century, brought back home, in...

An original piece from the series “Virtual modelâ€

Two points of view, the gaze flows through space, it moves, Time composes the flow into a single image. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certific...

TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was my invention in 1994. In fact, since 1964 I had been working with photography and painting which had never been united. In 1994 I returned to Naples, the city where I was born and had been missing for 10 years after moving to Rome in 1984. I returned to see the MIRACLE achieved by the G7 with the Presidents of the most powerful countries led by Bill Clinton, US President. It was a wonderful visit to my city reborn in its ancient splendor! I took over 5,000 photos of the squares and monuments of Naples with my Nikon. I returned to Rome and had all the photos printed and put them on various tables and assembled all the various pieces. I immediately realized that parts were missing which I completed with paint. A spontaneous gesture with which I had unconsciously achieved a great innovation: I had combined the REALITY of photography with the DREAM represented by painting. Silvia, my muse who knew me well, when I showed her the first work IMPERATING MALE (R:0176) that I had done she said to me: "Dario you have united the TWO WORLDS of your life: that of your childhood with the sensitivity of the dreamer with the concrete one that they gave you taught your parents with education, studies (degree in Economic Sciences) and work started at 15 years old in your family's copper industry. These formative years had distanced myself from those of childhood when I studied the piano and dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor. I also drew and painted with my imagination in search of the affections I was missing.  In fact my parents were busy in the factory (copper production) rebuilding Italy destroyed by the recently ended war. I then refined PHOTO-PAINTING which developed into DIGITAL PROCESSING having replaced the BRUSH with the MOUSE to fill the gaps left by the photography and complete the REALITY which with painting became another FANTASTIC reality. PLACES OF MEMORY Cities This work is part of the "research" PLACES OF MEMORY Cities revisited by me in a fantastic way. In fact I use my exclusive PHOTOPAINTING technique with a photographic element to which I add painting (oil or acrylic) to create a NEW REALITY. HEAVENLY ROME This is the first painting made of Rome with the PHOTOPAINTING technique 10 years after my move to Caput Mundi! Notice (on the right) two glimpses: The first desecrator is the façade of Montecitorio, seat of the Italian parliament, which is collapsing... and from the date of the painting 1995...

Contemporary acrylic painting on paper by Polish artist Wlodzimierz Karczmarzyk. Artwork depicts achitecture of basilica of St Mark in Venice, Italy. Artwork's style is sketch-like b...

"Venetian Light Jazz Piece" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It de...

The reality in Rynkewicz’s paintings is depicted in a graphic manner. They are bound together by concise aesthetics of pop-art. In the series ”Dreams, Apparitions, Fantasies”...