Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso (2023)Mixed-media painting by Antonio Mele

The work is composed of three images created with various techniques on fine cotton paper and painted on a wooden panel.
It depicts three imaginary places inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and in particular: a verse from Canto VIII of the Inferno, one from Canto XXIII of Purgatorio XXIII, and one from Canto XXXII of Paradiso XXXII.
The three images form a zoom that starts from the wide shot of the Canto sull'Inferno and moves to the figures in the foreground of the Canto sul Paradiso, passing through the medium shot of the Canto sul Purgatorio.
The individual images reflect different symbolic tensions: the one on Hell stigmatizes the environmental pollution that has now reached the mythical rivers of Hell.
Purgatory sees girls emaciated by hunger in Nazi concentration camps. Finally, Paradise with the protagonists of Dante's work observing the souls of the innocents symbolized by portraits of children who died in the Nazi gas chambers.

Materials used:

cotton paper and painted on a wooden panel

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Paper on board
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 147 x 35 x 1cm (unframed) / 147 x 35cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: People and portraits

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