Soldiers
1989
Size
28 x 11.81 x 3.94 in
Year
1989
Medium
Lightbox
Reference
d6d64ffb
Luminous work created by Alessandro D'Aquila taking up the concept of the optometric table used by ophthalmologists for visual tests on patients. Instead of traditional letters, the artist proposes the famous poem "Soldati" by Giuseppe Ungaretti, written in 1918 during the First World War, as for him it perfectly sums up the sense of stasis of the contemporary moment.
As you go down, the letters get smaller and smaller and are translated into the Braille alphabet, the artist's hallmark, creating a contrasting effect.
Work signed on the back in an edition of 10 copies.
, Italy
Alessandro D'Aquila's works revolve around contemporary culture, its popular images and how they are received or not received: their comunicability is the result of the recipient's perception, like D'Aquila highlights in his artworks, using the Braille alphabet, a language that is unintelligible for the majority of the public. By choosing this specific alphabet, the artist aims to provoke a sense of bewilderment in the average viewer, forcing them to experience what visually impaired people experience on a daily basis. With the 'Polaroid Sintetiche' series, D'Aquila takes the photographs himself and retouches them with oil and acrylic paint, simplifyng the subjects, doing the same work that our mind does with our memories, letting them fade away or mixing them with one another.Among his other series there are 'Ritratti senza volto', in which D'Aquila extrapolates his subjects from cinema, tv shows and pop culture, simplifying them to the extreme, making them recognizable thanks to their most distinctive features; 'Loghi comuni', a series dedicates to those brands that represent our collective imagination; 'Paesaggi sintetici', which presents diffrent types of oversimplified landscapes.
"I'd like to make visual art suitable not for those who see but for those who watch."
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