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With this new cycle of sculptures, David Casini continues his investigation process on the history of art. After being confronted, in other series of works and through a very personal abstract artistic language, with the paintings of great masters of Italian Renaissance, Casini focused on the pioneer of the Cubism movement, Pablo Picasso, specifically on art catalogues dedicated to him in the 1950s and 1960s, in which the works were reproduced in separate plates, and then pasted on the pages. Through the reinterpretation of these miniatures, the game of translation, of camouflage begins, where the images are selected in detail and carefully then concealed through juxtaposed silhouettes, collages or assimilated with different materials, until in one of the works in which the artist builds a structure that prevents the viewer to look at the illustration, directing his gaze to a completely distorted three-dimensional simulacrum, except in the theme of the female portrait. Each work is associated with the corresponding catalog through title, which indicates the exact point where the miniature has been subtracted from the book and whose remains only the caption on white page.

 

189)libreriaPicasso

 

190)pagg67,147

pagg. 67, 147,  2018, brass, glass, plexiglass, mineral stone, resin, magnet, printed paper, h41x30x20,5cm.

191)pagg67,147

 

192)pagg64,88,102.

pagg. 64, 88, 102, 107, 111,  2018, inlaid wood, glass, printed paper, h52x42x2,5cm.

193)pagg64,88,102.

 

194)pagg0,7,35,.

pagg. 0, 7, 35,  2018, inlaid wood, glass, printed paper, h52x42x2,5cm.

195)pagg0,7,35,

 

194)paggXI

pagg. XI,  2018, brass, resin, synthetic paint, plexiglass, printed paper, h31x24x9cm.

195)paggXI

 

196)paggXIV,XX

pagg. XIV, XX,  2018, brass, glass, UV digital printing on acetate sheet, printed paper, h50,5×40,5×2,5cm.

197)paggXIV,XX

 

200)pagg133,139

pagg. 133, 139,  2018, polished concrete, mineral stone, brass, resin, printed paper, h51x24x27cm.

201)pagg133,139

 

202)pagg133,139

 

203)pagg