Artworks-EN – Stefano Zago

WAR

Objects linked to the artist’s everyday life can take on new meanings when associated with each other. The thought of war, with the fears it produces (the dropping of a bomb, the symbolism of money that nullifies people’s humanity), becomes tolerable thanks to the formal research of the image and the artist’s slow and quiet work. The bomb becomes a pencil, the artist’s peaceful and innocent tool.

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The Nomad K

Collage created during a workshop at the Patronage Laïque Jules Valles, Paris.

Splash!

Etude pour l’affiche du Festival des Arts – Giudecca / Sacca Fisola Venise 2023.

Historia Calamitatum – 01

Fragonard at the Musée du Luxembourg

I made this drawing on invitation at the Musée du Luxembourg, in Paris, during the exhibition dedicated to Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
A few days after the November 2015 attacks, in a militarised and frightened Paris, I sought an evening of peace in the drawing. Given my state of mind, my drawing was reduced to a single panel, where I represented the works, their sensuality in a context so contrasted with the situation I was in. I wanted to represent in the work also to the other artists present, considering our work, like the works we study, an act of resistance against barbarism and obscurantism.

Unrest

And fire in the sky

1984
Acrylic on cardboard
Framed under glass
50 × 70 cm

The European Son

You killed your European son
You spit on those under twenty-one
But now your blue car’s gone
You better say so long
Hey hey, bye bye bye
(Lou Reed)

It is a wooden panel that you see, a found object that attracted the artist’s interest because of the reflections of natural colours that it gave off. The intervention is given only by the yellow stain, the sky-blue strip on cardboard, the three red dots on the already existing holes, the blue plastic cartridges on the nails, which also already existed, the choice of the frame, in terms of material and size.

The reference to the raw material is obvious. An original material that speaks for itself.

The minimal intervention dominated by pre-existing presences, and therefore by chance, is a fundamental reference for the artist.

The rudimentary, unfinished, imperfect, but unique, inescapable and definitive act. Disregard for conventions and style. The respectful dialogue with the material and the intrinsic and original form of the work.

Instant Landscape

A photographic image obtained without the use of a camera, by placing objects on a photosensitive surface (paper or photographic film) and then exposing it directly to light.

Inspired by the work of Man Ray, “Rayography”, from which it takes its name, is a “photograph obtained simply by placing the object between the sensitive paper and the light source”.
Man Ray says: “Captured in moments of visual detachment, during periods of emotional contact, these images are the oxidations of residues, fixed by light and chemistry, of living organisms. “(quote from Man Ray, Self-portrait, 1963, Actes Sud, 1998).
In fact, if you look closely at the little white dot, it is a tiny insect that was passing in front of the light source.

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Melancholy

Digigrafie. Nuove sperimentazioni. Disegno-Ritocco e colore digitale-stampa su carta fine art firmata e numerata in tiratura limitata.

Each step, including the digital acquisition and printing procedures, is part of the artist’s reflection and realisation.

MÉLANCOLIE
Digigraph from original drawing on Fine Art paper
Digiraphie
21×29,7 cm
2022

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