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Original artwork description:
from the series “The earth seen from space”, oil on thick paper. 47.5 x 40 cm.
This series of paintings is inspired by satellite photographs that today, with tools like Google Earth, allow anyone the virtual exploration of the planet. Starting from those real images, I rework those aerial views, inventing new codes of representation and new decorative elements. The map is distorted, deformed, altered as if it were a past memory, but something of that place is still recognizable. For the views of Doha and Qatar I invented decorative elements starting from the sands of the desert: the waves recall the ripples that the wind draws on the dunes, while the areas with "dots" are an ironic reference to the grains of the sand.
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Tags:
#pattern #abstraction #shapes #map #city #geometric #aerial #mapping #geography #arabicDoha, Qatar (2018) Oil painting
by Federico Cortese
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£354.31 Sold
- Oil painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 47.5 x 40 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
from the series “The earth seen from space”, oil on thick paper. 47.5 x 40 cm.
This series of paintings is inspired by satellite photographs that today, with tools like Google Earth, allow anyone the virtual exploration of the planet. Starting from those real images, I rework those aerial views, inventing new codes of representation and new decorative elements. The map is distorted, deformed, altered as if it were a past memory, but something of that place is still recognizable. For the views of Doha and Qatar I invented decorative elements starting from the sands of the desert: the waves recall the ripples that the wind draws on the dunes, while the areas with "dots" are an ironic reference to the grains of the sand.
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Tags:
#pattern #abstraction #shapes #map #city #geometric #aerial #mapping #geography #arabic
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Artist Reviews (30)
Federico Cortese
Italy
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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... Read more