“We’re animals”, by Giacomo Voli, is born as a liberation.The artist, class 1985, is a well known singer and musician, but his art journey started as a drawer in his childhood.As a long time fan of comics he appreciates “doodling”,...
Read More“We’re animals”, by Giacomo Voli, is born as a liberation.
The artist, class 1985, is a well known singer and musician, but his art journey started as a drawer in his childhood.
As a long time fan of comics he appreciates “doodling”, a form of art that tends to fill every space, trying to decorate the void (Haring).
The use of simple techniques such as pencil drawing and than blue ballpoint pen let the memories return back to school.
There Giacomo was used to “scribble” every possible surface: sheets, text books, drawing folders and so on.
This “habit”, combined with his love for animals, creates surreal works, like teeming and alive portraits.
Looking them from the distance you can see well known music world musicians, that become many different subjects once the eye gets close to the paper.
Giacomo’s style is strongly influenced by the illusions of Escher, Dalì, Magritte, and there’s something in his works that surely remind us about Arcimboldo.
Voli’s message is about the acceptance of our animality, not to give in to our base instincs but however to control them.
Vegan, antispeciesist and intersectional feminist, he recovered a way to get close to animality celebrating it, without exploitation.
