Original artwork description:

Oil on wood panel (plywood), 29 x 52 cm, 2023.

The entrance of a church is a clear point of passage, the precise limit between an inside and an outside, a metaphor built to represent the transition from a physical reality to a spiritual reality. No matter the faith, no matter the belonging to a religion. Even an atheist, entering a church (especially an Italian church), will experience the abrupt transition from the open air to the closed, fresh and humid scent, impregnated by the smell of incense and ancient wood; he will especially experience the transition from light to shadow, and will perceive the sensation of having approached the border with the unknown and the inexplicable.

Note: As you can see from the detail photos, the panel is slightly curved, but this defect can be easily corrected with the frame.

Materials used:

oil on plywood

Tags:
#shadow #surreal #architecture #ball #perspective #floor #shadows #door #entrance #dreaming 
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The entrance of the church (2023)

Oil painting 
by Federico Cortese

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Oil on wood panel (plywood), 29 x 52 cm, 2023.

The entrance of a church is a clear point of passage, the precise limit between an inside and an outside, a metaphor built to represent the transition from a physical reality to a spiritual reality. No matter the faith, no matter the belonging to a religion. Even an atheist, entering a church (especially an Italian church), will experience the abrupt transition from the open air to the closed, fresh and humid scent, impregnated by the smell of incense and ancient wood; he will especially experience the transition from light to shadow, and will perceive the sensation of having approached the border with the unknown and the inexplicable.

Note: As you can see from the detail photos, the panel is slightly curved, but this defect can be easily corrected with the frame.

Materials used:

oil on plywood

Tags:
#shadow #surreal #architecture #ball #perspective #floor #shadows #door #entrance #dreaming 
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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... Read more

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