Penthesilea – (Diptych: Penthesilea and Metropolitan Dog)

All my works follow the "fil rouge" of INCOMMUNICABILITY's theme, albeit in different declinations: social distancing, interpersonal relationships, internal conflicts, gender.

Incommunicability: social distancing.

This diptych represents a "New Urban Mythology". In a suspended world where everything is possible and achievable but also claustrophobic and lonely. It tells the individual's transformation and evolution of and his metropolis at the time of Covid-19 and looks to a future of profound change. 

It is inspired by Italo Calvino's "Le città invisibili." It wants to be an invitation to a deeper understanding of visible and invisible experiences, a combinatorial reading with the observer who finds himself deepening the various interpretative nuances, placing the accent on humanity's condition, which the web tool silently humiliates and demeans.

This artwork intends to reflect on the metropolises and the possibilities we have to live in them and escape them. 

The horsewoman represents rebellion, the waiting before the battle for freedom. The anthropomorphic form, immersed in the night urban environment, is the central element of my artwork. I hope to encourage my audience to a deeper understanding of visible and invisible experiences, deepen the essence of the human condition and communication problems,

In the Diptych, the figures are frozen in action, observe, they try to communicate with each other, listening in a kind of telepathy. They contemplate in a suspended time; the colors and textures create a feeling of illusion, dreams that go beyond time and physical form.

The two animals of the diptych correspond a lot to me in this period, fidelity and subordination, male and female, freedom and the race towards the future, and the alchemical charm of feeling one with the animal. 
Created during the lockdown is part of a diptych that began with "Metropolitan Dog" last days of December 2019 and continues with "Penthesilea" in March 2020.