Painting Cutout Oil On Canvas Framed With Faux-Bamboo Wood -02

We kindly ask that you read the entire description, as we strive to provide comprehensive technical and historical details to ensure the authenticity of our items. This frame encloses a canvas cutout from an antique oil painting and is particularly unique and distinctive. It was recently crafted by a Florentine Master cabinetmaker whose workshop is located in the most charming and vibrant district of Florence, San Frediano, renowned for its artisan shops that produce entirely handmade works. The Master used carved and shaped wood to replicate the appearance of bamboo, employing a technique known as "faux bamboo." This process involves using durable woods, such as maple or oak, that are intricately carved and then painted to achieve the desired effect. The "faux bamboo" technique has a history that dates back several centuries and gained significant popularity during the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America, eras marked by a fascination with exotic and Oriental design influences. This technique was particularly associated with the Chinoiserie style, an artistic movement inspired by Chinese art and aesthetics. At the time, real bamboo furniture...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Work of the famous Italian painter Max Marra, paint mixed technique on canvas dated 2004, titled "Judges", on the back of the painting we find a “Certificate of Authenticity”, a photo of the author with signature and his biography, since the latter is written in Italian, we proceeded to translate it here below. Still, on the back of the picture, we can see two small repairs done by the author himself. Max Marra was born in Paola, Calabria, in 1950. He lives in Monza and works in Lissone. Matured graphic and television experiences, from the 1980s he directed his research towards the integration of expressive technique in painting and sculpture with recycled materials. He works in the H: Orarte laboratory, which he shares with Mario De Leo. He links the teaching and commitment of cultural, organizational, and editorial promotion to artistic activity. With Mario De Leo, Luigi Bianco and other operators founded the Oason Movement in 1985 and then Harta, a bi-monthly cultural interaction, which was later joined by the Hartamotus Association. In 1988 he founded Lissone, with Mario De Meo, the interdisciplinary art studio H: Orarte, open to the consideration, dialogue, and confrontation of other artists, active in organizing cultural initiatives and events. His activity is linked to themes and specific cultural projects, identifiable in the contents and expressive tools. Strong hills, strong features, biting ideas, but also some stops in the white, which is air, which is infinite, to be captured in heavy frames, almost in a purification ritual. He exhibits in a personal exhibition in a private gallery, public institutions, participates in thematic exhibitions, and national and international collective exhibitions are present in Germany, France, Japan. Main exhibitions Cieli di terra, a cura di T. Coltellaro, Museo Archeologico, Lamezia Terme e Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Taverna, 2002; 57° Premio Michetti Laboratorio Italia, a cura di Philippe Daverio, Francavilla a Mare, 2006; Repubblica e costituzione: rassegna d’arte per i sessant’anni della costituzione italiana a cura di M. Domenicucci, F. Papale e C. Mosillo, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma, 2008; Max Marra: Opere 1984 – 2009, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone, 2009/10; Time passages, a cura di Omar Calabrese, Magazzini del Sale, Siena, 2011; Luoghi e realtà di ricerca tra identità e mutamento, a cura di T. Coltellaro, Collegio Sant’Adriano, San Demetrio Corone, 2011; Limen Arte vince il primo premio, Vibo Valentia, 2011; 54a Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia per il 150° dell’Unità d’Italia “L’arte non è cosa nostra”, a cura di Vittorio Sgarbi, Sala del Re – Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milano e Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Sala Nervi, Torino, 2011/12; Max Marra. Orizzonte senza approdo, a cura di C. Rizzi, Museo Parisi Valle, Maccagno, 2012; Cieli di cosmos, Sofia Arsenal, Museum for Contemporary Art, 2013; Equilibri materici, a cura di G. Bonomi, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rocca di Umbertide, 2015; E fu il terremoto, a cura di Vittorio Erlindo, Refettorio del Monastero di San Benedetto Po, Mantova, Monastero di Weingarten (Germania) 2018; IXION, MAC Lissone, a cura di A. Zanchetta; L’opera in bianco, a cura di S. Cortina, Galleria Cortina, Milano, 2018; Dal Rembrandt by himself all’io ritratto, a cura di G. Lepore, Accademia Nazionale delle Belle Arti di Sofia, Bulgaria 2018; Contributi al Novecento, Da Boccioni a Rotella ai contemporanei, Fondazione Stelline, Milano, a cura di B. Corà e T. Sicoli; Di studio in studio, Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milano, a cura S. Soddu, Comune di Milano e Politecnico di Milano 2019; Omaggio a Franca Rame, MusAlab Archivio Franca Rame e Dario Fò...

Oil painting on canvas with a costumbrist scene framed in Bamboo.

Antique framed oil painting on canvas showcases the artist's talents with rendering landscape, sky, water, even quaint rural arch...