Marylin sulla mia pelle

"Painting inspired by a black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe from the 50s. Produced in large dimensions, the painting is bordered by a broad frame into which hundreds of photographs of tattos featuring the unforgettable star, taken over the past fifty years, have been applied.
The research, based on the site "Marilyn Tattoo", provokes an intense spatio-temporal ralationship, intended to highlight the connection between this icon of the 50s and her projection into the collective imagination through a more recent form of modern art that of the tattoo...

Silvia Arfelli