Artwork created by: Antonio Guccione. Without permission to print (© Antonio Guccione, Tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, Amboise 1519, 2009, digital video, 1920 × 1080).
Notes on photography. Exhibition: 2010 Vanitas, Saint Moritz Art Masters, S. Moritz, Switzerland 2012 Live and Die O. Generale, Melrose Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 2013 Vanitas, Bim Suisse, Lugano, Switzerland 2014 From Jesus to Yves Saint Laurent, Fat Galerie, Paris, France 2015 Vanitas, Genoa Biennale Critics' Award, Italy 2018 Antonio Guccione Portofino, Castello Brown, Portofino, Italy
His skulls – all things considered – are still portraits, which he tells with childish enthusiasm and darting eyes gleaming with pride. In the first, depicting an impressive image of Benito Mussolini, was born almost by chance. Guccione photographs this object from a lowered angle, turning it into a monument on a background of warm, slightly sour colours. The similarity is caught afterwards. And he, the artist, with his usual readiness to seize the cue and his desire to play, takes pleasure in it. This is how the series was born. And he now obtains the resemblance of any subject to its skull – since the resemblance does exist, seriously, net of all subsequent additions - by entrusting the realization of the raw material (i.e. precisely the skull) to a German company, starting from the actual face, is able to infer the features of the skull.
Tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, Amboise 1519
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Artwork created by: Antonio Guccione. Without permission to print (© Antonio Guccione, Tribute to Leonardo da Vinci, Amboise 1519, 2009, digital video, 1920 × 1080).
Notes on photography. Exhibition: 2010 Vanitas, Saint Moritz Art Masters, S. Moritz, Switzerland 2012 Live and Die O. Generale, Melrose Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 2013 Vanitas, Bim Suisse, Lugano, Switzerland 2014 From Jesus to Yves Saint Laurent, Fat Galerie, Paris, France 2015 Vanitas, Genoa Biennale Critics' Award, Italy 2018 Antonio Guccione Portofino, Castello Brown, Portofino, Italy
His skulls – all things considered – are still portraits, which he tells with childish enthusiasm and darting eyes gleaming with pride. In the first, depicting an impressive image of Benito Mussolini, was born almost by chance. Guccione photographs this object from a lowered angle, turning it into a monument on a background of warm, slightly sour colours. The similarity is caught afterwards. And he, the artist, with his usual readiness to seize the cue and his desire to play, takes pleasure in it. This is how the series was born. And he now obtains the resemblance of any subject to its skull – since the resemblance does exist, seriously, net of all subsequent additions - by entrusting the realization of the raw material (i.e. precisely the skull) to a German company, starting from the actual face, is able to infer the features of the skull.