federico cortese
Italien (Italia)
federicocortese.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
I was born in 1971 in Turin, where I live and work as an artist and as an architect. Since I can remember I have always drawn. My preferred techniques are classic oils on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
I’m like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I work within my home. My studio is a room of the house in which I live. In this relatively small space are accumulated all the materials and equipment I need to draw and paint, but in a certain sense also the suggestions that inspire my work. Here are the desks and drawing boards, with brushes and paint colors, but also, on the walls or placed in closets, paintings and drawings (I think each finished work is always an inspiration for the next, in somehow). A great source of ideas are books and music, and of course the PC. The graphics programs and virtual modeling programs have become over the years a valuable support, but obviously the richest mine is the internet: a reservoir of images and ideas from which to draw, and in which we often are lost (in addition to photos of my own travels, all stored on the computer). It 'a small microcosm closed in on itself, rather impervious to the outside world (despite a large window with a beautiful view of Turin, almost always I work with the curtains closed). It is a bit as if the suggestions of the real world were allowed to enter here only after being filtered and digested, only after it has been already turned into experience. Exactly like a rat, eating quiet its supplies in its den, waiting for the end of winter.
In my artistic research I've always been attracted to all that is sortable, classifiable. Perhaps this attitude stems from a primordial insecurity, and perhaps the illusion of putting order into chaos eases this concern.
To start this game is sufficient to identify a subject that lends itself to variations, and the game consists precisely in identifying the rules that form the basis of possible changes. It 'a little like discovering a new language and trying to decipher the syntax, grammar, exceptions.
With these assumptions, it is easy to see that the subjects of this research can be the most different and in fact my designs ranging from butterfly collections to herbaria, from ancient bestiaries to manuals of anatomy, maps, human faces, hands, pornography, flags ... They are all languages having their own vocabulary, and my attempt is to isolate it and reinvent it, trying to generate new meanings.
Consider for example a road map or a map. They are born with a practical, precise purpose. Some graphic conventions, signs, symbols are chosen to represent on paper all the information that the map must contain. This at the end generates an aesthetics. What happens if I isolate this technique of representation from the purpose for which it was created and alter the rules that govern it? Does it continue to convey meaning? This meaning will be new and unexpected? Or for the reader this will be meaningless, as an unknown language?
My favorite painting techniques are oil paint on paper or canvas and graphite drawing. In general the work proceeds by sedimentation of successive layers, each layer adds something new, but at the same time covers something of the underlying layer.
I have sold my works on the net, as original unique handmade artworks (saatchiart.com, zatista.com, artfinder.com) or as posters and reproductions on other products such as T-shirts (redbubble.com, teepublic.com, cupick.com), dresses (artonfashion.com), pillows and bags (society6.com).
I safely package my sold works by myself. They are never rolled but always packed flat. My artworks are put between two sheets of acid free paper with paper protection for the corners, than closed in a plastic envelope. The envelope is stiffen with a sheet of polystyrene, and the whole thing is completed with several layers of cardboard on both sides. In case of canvases the package is also protected with bubble packaging.
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The shop window
Malerei
Ölmalerei
50 x 70 x 2 cm
2022
Preis: 1.250 Euro
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The reading room
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Ölmalerei
120 x 80 x 2 cm
2022
Preis: 3.100 Euro
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Skyscraper
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Ölmalerei
70 x 120 x 2 cm
2022
Preis: 2.500 Euro
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Abandoned room
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Ölmalerei
70 x 50 x 2 cm
2021
Preis: 1.250 Euro
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The reading room
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Ölmalerei
50 x 70 x 2 cm
2021
Preis: 950 Euro
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Flamingos
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Ölmalerei
80 x 80 x 2 cm
2022
Preis: 2.150 Euro
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Chromatic number
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Ölmalerei
50 x 50 cm
2021
Preis: 650 Euro
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The reading room
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Ölmalerei
60 x 40 cm
2021
Preis: 650 Euro
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Cromatica number 6
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Ölmalerei
40 x 40 cm
2021
Preis: 360 Euro
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Serendipity
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Ölmalerei
50 x 70 x 2 cm
2020
Preis: 1.250 Euro
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Cromatica
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Ölmalerei
40 x 70 cm
2020
Preis: 520 Euro
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Virtual model
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Ölmalerei
50 x 50 x 2 cm
2020
Preis: 850 Euro
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My grandfather was a light maker
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Ölmalerei
90 x 70 x 2 cm
2020
Preis: 2.150 Euro
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Motorcycle
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Ölmalerei
80 x 80 x 2 cm
2019
Preis: 2.150 Euro
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Little view of San Francisco
Malerei
Ölmalerei
23 x 18 cm
2019
Preis: 170 Euro
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Rorschach number 4
Malerei
Ölmalerei
65 x 50 cm
2019
Preis: 740 Euro
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The landfill of Los Angeles
Malerei
Ölmalerei
40 x 50 x 2 cm
2019
Preis: 750 Euro
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Circular butterfly
Malerei
Ölmalerei
35 x 30 x 1 cm
2018
Preis: 260 Euro
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Civic Center with Matrioska
Malerei
Ölmalerei
70 x 90 x 2 cm
2017
Preis: 2.150 Euro
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Matryoshka
Malerei
Ölmalerei
80 x 60 x 2 cm
2016
Preis: 1.890 Euro
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the red star
Malerei
Ölmalerei
90 x 70 x 2 cm
2015
Preis: 2.150 Euro
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