MOVIDA
100 x 75 cm
Digital
print on canvas
Techniques:
photography, digital image processing, and digital painting software
This
is a painting I created during one of the worst periods of COVID. It
represents the reaction to the temporary lifting of the various
lockdowns that followed one another during that time. A people,
exasperated by forced isolation, seek physical contact through the
ritual stroll, the so-called "movida" that had been denied
for so long, revealing a superficial sociality that, heedless of the
rising infections, clings to conventions rather than common sense,
turning the walk into a grotesque incubator of the dreaded virus.
The
perspective layout of the painting is partly inspired, also by
analogy of meaning, by Munch's famous painting "Evening
on Karl Johan Street" which
shows men and women as spiritless casings moving along the wave of
conventions.
