Grid number 4

by federico cortese, Italy, 2021

Painting, Oil, Unframed

Size 45 x 35 cm

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About the Artist

I was born in 1971 in Turin, where I live and work as an artist and as an architect. Since I can remember I have always drawn. My preferred techniques are classic oils on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings. I’m like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I work within my home...
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About the Artwork

An original piece from the series “Reticulum”, oil on thick paper, 35 x 45 cm, 2021. The origin of these paintings is very simple and is almost a game: I draw a grid and I deform it. Then I search for some decorative elements. With these elements I fill the crooked dowels of the grid. The dowels are all filled in the same way in a series of steps, until they are saturated with decoration. The initial deformation lead changes among the parts.
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