ABOUT

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ

I started these pieces with a simple idea: painting stereotypes of cryptoart on pieces of cardboard. In this way, I wanted to talk about the opportunities that this community and this technology gives to third world artists. Opportunities that, in fact, allow us to put ourselves on equal conditions with any artist around the world, and to be able to make known and sell our own work.

But then I decided to make it a little more complex. I began to think precisely about

those stereotypes of cryptoart and to contrast them with the reality that I daily see around me. It was then, I discovered the second layer of depth of this artistic project.

On the first level, the cardboard works in the form of a badge: artists of the third world have the concrete possibility of being cryptoartists and even being able to sustain themselves with their work. And on the second level, these stereotypes of cryptoart are very distant from us, and if we keep indulging them without asking any questions or without stopping to reflect, we run the risk of not showing our own reality.

From this gratitude and this contrast, my new collection, "Shadows of a cliché", arises.


SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: ASTRONAUT

How far is the sky if you are attached to the ground?
Is a dream a dream ifit can't fly?
If it's held by bricks and stones?
...
Look up.
Look beyond.
Don't forget to look around.


Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-astronaut-28913

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: ANDROID

Polished
Out of errors
The future without variety.

Bald and shiny
Human imagination of humans without humanity
Our body… imagined as a mirror of oneself.

Is it a revolution to get rid of our differences?
Is there space for the beautiful if everything's the same?

Why to think about decentralization
Of finance
Social networking
Art
And pick an android to talk about the future?

What is an android but the denial of a human?
The denial of everything that brought us here?

What is an android, after all, but centralization of thinking itself?

Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-android-30269

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: GUY FAWKES MASK

Most people
don't need a mask to be anonymous

And cameras
tend to focus on fireworks
but never
on who holds the lighter

Revolution is a beautiful word
as it is loud
but represents
what happens in silence.


Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-guy-fawkes-mask-29459

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: CAT

Some in the streets,
some in the moon.

Some disheveled,
some pixelated.

Kittens go crypto,
or seek for a home.

Two realities converge in this piece.

The representation,
and the potential of unconditional love.

Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-cat-32432

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: SKULL

Skulls are painted
as a way to deal
with our only shared destiny:
death.

And although
we all, eventually,
leave skulls behind us,
not every death is the same.

In fact:
If death is what equals us,
as we are told,
The duration of the agony
is precisely what divides us.


Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-skull-31925

SHADOWS OF A CLICHÉ: AVATAR

If avatars are ourselves
in the metaverse.

That means
eventually
we are all for sale.

And maybe also
kidnappers.

Willing to give an identity
to the other
for a fair price.

If avatars are ourselves
but our money is not enough.

You can't pick who you are.
Instead,
you are the result of a line of coding.

Or worst:
you are a copy
of someone else
prestige.

If avatars are ourselves,
we are a game, a Rolex contest.

A pretty face
for a soda's asset.

Or lottery
hidden behind
an artistic curtain.


Secondary market: https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/shadows-of-a-clich%C3%A9:-avatar-31181
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