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YEAR:
SIZE:
2017
60 H x 60 W x 2.5 cm
MEDIUM:
Oil on canvas
CATEGORY:
Painting
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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Massimo Orsi lives and works between Alessandria and Rome. An artist attuned to the world around him, he has always focused his attention on the issues facing contemporary society. He moves with ease across various artistic media, yet he has chosen painting as his primary means of expression. His work is always driven by a political imperative, where making art means taking a clear stance within the society in which we live. His analysis of the contemporary world focuses on mass media and extracts, from the flood of daily images, the primary symbol of consumerism: the logo. The logo is derived from the composition of the OK symbol, an expressive emblem of our society. The OK symbol, repeated and inverted on the four sides of a square, becomes a logo. The OK logo does not seek to sell a specific commercial product; it does not become a brand, but, as an intellectual product, it questions the intrinsic truth of the message. The OK logo becomes the preferred—though not exclusive—tool for investigating the contemporary world.

ARTWORK STORY

The work belongs to the “artifices” series and explores the meaning of painting in the traditional sense—that is, the act of using painterly artifice to lend a two-dimensional surface a sense of three-dimensionality. The OK logo is depicted in its entirety and is imagined as a bas-relief emerging from a surface of colored stripes.

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