Tryptic Corpus homini
The Corpus homini is one of my favourite public art projects, it’s a tryptic painted between 2019 and 2020 in Campobasso, a small town in central Italy, Matera, in southern Italy, and Ragusa, in Sicily.
It’s based on the wounds of the crucifixion, so the viewer is spontaneously pushed to think about Jesus Christ, even if, for me, this is never specified. The wounds are a recurrent subject of my artworks, all the art that touches me deeply is born from a certain amount of suffering, and i thought that, in a society that forces us to always look happy and to hide any kind of pain, it could have been important to start a discussion about that by using an iconography that we’re used to see pretty much daily, without paying much attention to it.
The three pieces are painted and have sculptural installations, the nails and the blood cross the bidimensional limit of mural painting, i’m one of the few ones that fuses painting and sculpture in public art pieces.
Each piece contains some hidden message, in the first one the nails are put in the wrists, like historians said, instead than in the hands, like the catholic religion passed on, debating the stigmata allegedly received in the wrong anatomycal place by modern times saints. The feet in the second chapter are quiet evidently feminine, my girlfriend posed for the reference, the piece was painted after a brutal case of violence on a woman that really hit me hard. The blood spilling out of the wound of the third piece resembles the bitumen, that was extracted in the factory where i painted it, as a homage to all the workers who spent and lost their lives there.
