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The reading room (2021) Original Oil Painting by Federico Cortese
60 x 40 x 0.1cm (unframed)
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Original artwork description
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.
Summary of features:
Medium & materials: oil on thick paper
Finishing: protective varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2021
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Signed: on the front, bottom right corner
Surface of the paper: smooth
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Details:
- Oil painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 40 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
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.
Summary of features:
Medium & materials: oil on thick paper
Finishing: protective varnish (transparent mastic paint)
Location and year created: Turin, Italy - 2021
Certificate of Authenticity: included, with signature of the artist on photograph
Signed: on the front, bottom right corner
Surface of the paper: smooth
Materials used:
oil on thick paper
Details:
- Oil painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 40 x 0.1cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
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