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Please find here the approved applications to the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening. The open call was closed on 1 May.
The next Open Call for the Social Art Ward will be opened in 2023.
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Routes 2017
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Title:
Routes 2017
Routes 2017
Author:
Maryda Geraci
Maryda Geraci
Description:
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.
Description:
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.