Alchemical Bags Artwork

"The body and its symbolic dimension. This is the meaning of the work of Matia Chincarini, a young artist from Verona, who observes the new generations as if they were angels. They are naked bodies removed from the ephemeral of the contemporary and proposed as sources of consciousness. A star placed near the heart or throat, on the forehead, immediately communicates the symbolic opening to the world of that body. They are not victims of history but forces of awareness, just as are the ritual gestures that accompany spiritual growth. They are wandering pilgrims, bodies moving through the world each with their own sack. In psychoanalysis this symbolises the unconscious, the place in which we enclose our sorrows, and which, depending on its heaviness, allows us or not a certain mobility in life. Matia's sacks are alchemical sacks, cauldrons, crucibles for transformation in the dualistic presence of gold or silver, of sun and moon. Each body is forced into sculptural poses of adaptation to these existential destinies induced by alchemical processes. The essentiality of the image proposed in a serial manner for purely evocative purposes is contrasted by the preciousness of the canvases. Often richly decorated fabrics that reveal the conflict between essentiality and ephemerality." Nadia Melotti’s critical apparatus for “Angeli, sacchi e santi”, Galleria Testoni, Verona (Italy), 2005 TECHNIQUE The photo-transfer technique, which I learnt in Spain, is a manual print made with a roller pressure press that - through a process of chemical heat and pressure - 'brings back' the printed image onto the final support: in this case a decorated Indian silk. The technique creates a reversal of the image as in photography with its negative being printed. This reversal creates a splitting, it gives the possibility to consider a polarity: chaos/order, darkness/light, evil/good that are not divisible, but mutually complementary because they are part of the same world.

Multi-paneled Mixed Media:Etching on Soft (yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22.4 W x 22.4 H x 2.4 D in

Number of Panels:4

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