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search_for_identity (bodies) 80x80 (triptych), 2015 photo on transparent acetate the artist elects interlacing and transparency as key elements of his signature style. and he uses them to suggest directions, to give tools to possibly understand reality, viewing art as active, vital and alive, sharing. a conception of “art” that leads back to Beuys' one: “art as a global experience, total process of individual regeneration and liberation”. the artistic, peculiar gesture the Biella artist carries out while defining identity starts right from his native land traditions. piana interweaves macroscopic canvases starting from printings on transparent acetate. the photos show the embrace between two naked feminine and masculine bodies (one of the subjects is necessarily and responsibly the artist himself). they are cut with thorough precision into warps and woofs, then interlaced on the shell of the frame. the result is the coexistence of both genres, in the encounter with the other, that is only possible when the vague nature of borders between our very man and women part gets acknowledged in our selves.

ricerca_d_identità

ricerca_d_identità

ricerca_di_identità (6161_seiuno_seiuna)

"ricerca_d_identità (6161_seiunoseiuna)" | search_for_identity (youareone_maleandfemale) | author: gigi piana year: 2014 technique: photo on transparent acetate photographic project: Ewa Gleisner ricerca_d_identità (6161_seiunoseiuna) |search_for_identity (youareone_maleandfemale)| faces one of the oldest reflections of man in the definition of his ego, the male and female component which together constitute the essence, the deepest and most torn root of our being. We can find this concept even in the Tao, the symbol of universal balance, made explicit in the small white drop immersed into the black and vice versa. For the human being, the acceptance of this simple truth continuously clashes with the prejudices and the cultures in which subjects interact. A natural disposition that collides with social conventions, generating in some cases real “monsters”... of ignorance! We can find a further reading level in this work: that of the social interaction between individuals, not necessarily of different sexes. In both cases, the invitation is to the exchange, to deepening, and to relationship. Interlacement is coexistence, acceptance of other individuals with no domination but equal dignity, of other individuals in mutual respect.

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