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federico cortese

Italy (Italia)

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category: Painting
technique: Oilpainting
Style: Representational

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.

Bio / Resumee / Statement:
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 reading room Painting Oilpainting 50 x 70 x 2 cm 2021 Price: 950 Euro more information
	Flamingos Painting Oilpainting 80 x 80 x 2 cm 2022 Price: 2.150 Euro more information
	Chromatic number Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 cm 2021 Price: 650 Euro more information
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	The reading room Painting Oilpainting 60 x 40 cm 2021 Price: 650 Euro more information
	Cromatica number 6 Painting Oilpainting 40 x 40 cm 2021 Price: 360 Euro more information
	Serendipity Painting Oilpainting 50 x 70 x 2 cm 2020 Price: 1.250 Euro more information
	the infinite city Painting Oilpainting 35 x 63 cm 221 sold more information
	the infinite city Painting Oilpainting 50 x 70 x 2 cm 2020 sold more information
	Blast number 1 Painting Oilpainting 44 x 44 cm 2020 sold more information
	Cromatica Painting Oilpainting 40 x 70 cm 2020 Price: 520 Euro more information
	Goldfish Painting Oilpainting 50 x 70 x 2 cm 2020 Price: 1.250 Euro more information
	Nobile's trip to the north pole Painting Oilpainting 56 x 40 cm 2020 sold more information
	Virtual model Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 2 cm 2020 Price: 850 Euro more information
	Inside the house Painting Oilpainting 120 x 90 x 2 cm 2020 sold more information
	My grandfather was a light maker Painting Oilpainting 90 x 70 x 2 cm 2020 Price: 2.150 Euro more information
	Virtual model Painting Oilpainting 40 x 40 cm 2019 sold more information
	Motorcycle Painting Oilpainting 80 x 80 x 2 cm 2019 Price: 2.150 Euro more information
	Little view of San Francisco Painting Oilpainting 23 x 18 cm 2019 Price: 170 Euro more information
	Rorschach number 4 Painting Oilpainting 65 x 50 cm 2019 Price: 740 Euro more information
	The landfill of Los Angeles Painting Oilpainting 40 x 50 x 2 cm 2019 Price: 750 Euro more information
	Circular butterfly Painting Oilpainting 35 x 30 x 1 cm 2018 Price: 260 Euro more information
	Qatar Painting Oilpainting 65 x 80 cm 2018 Price: 950 Euro more information
	Memory of the coral reef Painting Oilpainting 60 x 80 x 2 cm 2018 sold more information
	The landfill of Turin Painting Oilpainting 40 x 50 x 2 cm 2017 sold more information
	Abandoned room Painting Oilpainting 50 x 50 x 5 cm 2018 sold more information
	Winter woods Painting Oilpainting 106 x 63 cm 2015 sold more information
	Abandoned room with the mole Antonelliana Painting Oilpainting 70 x 40 x 2 cm 2018 sold more information
	Carnival Painting Oilpainting 56 x 40 cm 2017 sold more information
	Fibonacci moth Painting Oilpainting 30 x 50 cm 2017 sold more information
	Civic Center with Matrioska Painting Oilpainting 70 x 90 x 2 cm 2017 Price: 2.150 Euro more information
	Volcano in L.A. Painting Oilpainting 90 x 70 x 2 cm 2017 sold more information
	psychedelic fish (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 40 x 80 x 2 cm 2016 sold more information
	psychotronic moth (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 25 x 28 cm 2016 sold more information
	psychedelic octopus (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 50 x 28 cm 2016 sold more information
	Matryoshka Painting Oilpainting 80 x 60 x 2 cm 2016 Price: 1.890 Euro more information
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	antinoo farnese (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 35 x 35 cm 2016 sold more information
	the red star Painting Oilpainting 90 x 70 x 2 cm 2015 Price: 2.150 Euro more information
	The house of the haruspex Painting Oilpainting 70 x 100 x 2 cm 2011 Price: 2.250 Euro more information
	the great beaury Painting Oilpainting 130 x 75 x 2 cm 2015 sold more information
	the blue house (sold) Painting Oilpainting 40 x 40 cm 2015 sold more information
	the censor Painting Oilpainting 60 x 80 x 2 cm 2010 sold more information
	VIRTUAL MODEL (sold) Painting Oilpainting 40 x 40 cm 2015 sold more information
	berlin - tiergarten - SOLD Painting Oilpainting 30 x 30 cm 2015 sold more information
	the missing child (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 59 x 72 cm 2015 sold more information
	virtual model (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 40 x 40 cm 2015 sold more information
	Koblenz - SOLD Painting Oilpainting 30 x 30 cm 2014 sold more information
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	stagbeetle (SOLD) Painting Oilpainting 54 x 42 cm 2014 sold more information
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