Picchiarello - The Son of Man (Renè Magritte tribute)

Dimensions: 41X30 inches/104x76 cm

Medium: 609 wooden blocks on a wooden panel, acrylic paint

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About the work:
The italian artistic duo Picchiarello make colorful mosaics created with handcrafted and hand-painted wooden blocks.
The artists were influenced by passion for contemporary art and music.
From the world of art, the most important influence is certainly due to Marcel Duchamp, father of conceptual art: his creed that recited “It is the observer who completes the work” inspired Antonio and Marco to create something that requires the active involvement of the viewer, and it is from their admiration for Duchamp’s provocative “Mona Lisa” that comes the desire to reinterpret the masterpieces of the past in a fresh key.
Instead, from the world of music they borrows the key concept of their works: reflecting on the process of transforming an analog audio track into a compressed digital one (mp3), which basically consists in eliminating some notes from the original track, continuing to “cut” to the limit within which the original song is still perfectly recognizable, the artists sensed the parallelism of this concept with that of Pixel Art (where the original image is fragmented without renouncing its recognizability), thus deciding to use this technique, taking a wooden acoustic panel (here again comes the influence from the world of music) as an inspiration for the medium .