Domenico Canino (1986) - Red Whale (XXL)

Synthetic enamel painting on pre-stretched plasticized canvas No Frame (will be shipped rolled) Canino investigates the pictorial space in search of figures that slash the canvas and go beyond the dichotomy between life and death, sleep and wakefulness, and light and shadow. A series of blurred, rarefied figures that dissolve into the void to recombine into something else. ...the figures of Canino seem to disappear into nothingness, they liquefy and flow in a vital stream that gives life to numerous other forms... “which exhausts itself like a hemorrhage, that undresses to the aspect that assumes its own nudity, exposing its own exposure” vulnerability and sorrow, in Canino’s painting it is as if they emerge as states of nature. The use of synthetic enamels as a medium and the trace resulting from their blending confer dimension and energy to the figuration of bodies that, in Canino’s strokes, appear in a vision that is stripped bare. Torn yet regenerated. Also due to the particular reddish tint that the artist has experimented with and uses, the oxidized-blood tone, and the gloss achieved by the enamel that recalls the vivid vision of the muscle fibers of which a body is composed. An under-skin look, beyond the reassuring and homogeneous surface of identity, to reach the living flesh of alterity. “We must uproot the idea that knowing equals possessing the being to the point of reducing it to nothing, thus neutralizing its constitutive otherness. [...] it is only an attempt to reduce the distance between self and the Other to guarantee the self-sufficiency of the Same, its identification.” ''...layer after layer (the diversity) the painter arrives at composing a single body, a mass, a subject. thus the representation of the whole contained in the I....'' Hand-signed NO FRAME will be shipped rolled will be shipped with certificate of authenticity and owner’s header hand-signed prints recently produced engravings Domenico Canino Born in Catanzaro in 1986 and raised in Albi among the mountains of the Sila Piccola, where he began his early artistic studies, immediately incorporating the aesthetics of nature as the subject of his works. For several years he lived and worked in Rome, where he earned a diploma in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts with the project on auditory perception “Study on the vibration of the Iron.” He has collaborated with several theater companies, curating scenery and visual installations for performances, blending artistic language with scenographic techniques. Since 2009 he has continued his research in the field of Sound Art, in the realm of video imagery, without abandoning painting. His works are project-based. Through action, painting and electronic arts, he develops experiments and artistic research whose guiding soul is the concept of “existence” and its sacredness. Canino’s art is a primordial call to the unity of Life, understood as an organic whole but never harmonious, opposed to the conscious will of contemporary civilization. And the worship of the unconscious, of the original thought, as a cyclical return to the origin of pure existence. Canino’s anti-heroes break the cages of time and space imposed by a mechanized society. They slash the canvas to transcend the dichotomy between life and death, sleep and wakefulness, light and shadow. The Arte/Vita binomial, time, nature, space, the animal, are recurring aspects also in his visual/sound compositions, often developed in natural spaces and then installed in exhibition spaces, such as “My sign and the Sign of the Earth,” a work developed over two years (2011-2012), or as “Pieces from the Sacred Tree,” “Blue Line in the Space,” “Ten Different Moments” (2010). Still in 2010, he continues with multimedia language and techniques to realize video works “Internal Videoportrait” and “Here,” and the surreal photographic series “Pages from Life book.” Since 2011 he has worked, using synthetic enamels, on long painting series “Space, Energy, Masses,” “The Past, the Present, and the Future of the Human Condition,” “Hypernature” and “You, me and the others,” with the latter, seeking to define and affirm his painterly style and visual language. He currently lives and works in Bologna and collaborates with the Istituto Giambattista Vico, serving as a lecturer in Figurative Arts, multimedia design and the history of Art. Instagram. @domenico.canino.archive

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