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The reading room (2022) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese

120 x 80 x 2cm (unframed)

31 Artist Reviews

$3,640

In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For this reason the rooms have a view towards the outside and the concrete world. Only by painting them, I realized that those windows are not an opening, the external landscape does not count at all, and the room is a refuge. The reader is somehow protected from the outside world as in a shelter, and his reality is only inside the book.

Other features:
Thickness of the canvas: 2 cm
Finishing: protective varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2022
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Signed: on the front

Materials used:

oil on canvas

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In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For this reason the rooms have a view towards the outside and the concrete world. Only by painting them, I realized that those windows are not an opening, the external landscape does not count at all, and the room is a refuge. The reader is somehow protected from the outside world as in a shelter, and his reality is only inside the book.

Other features:
Thickness of the canvas: 2 cm
Finishing: protective varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2022
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Signed: on the front

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Details:

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I’m like a mouse in its box. A little mouse safe in its shelter, that passes his time gnawing the food stored for the winter. But my food are the drawings. I... Read more

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