EGOSCROSSOVER PROJECT

CROSSOVER ARTISTIC PROJECT FROM SWITZERLANDEGOS project

www.egosproject.altervista.org

PHOTOGRAPHY BY SALVATORE VITALEPAINTING BY JACK MARTIN

ABOUT - METHOD - BEFORE AND AFTER - EXHIBITION - CONTACTS

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about

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Egos comes from the wish to create a project which can play a link role be-tween photography and painting in an experimental way, but at the same timeidealistic, with a strong conceptual ap-proach which becomes the creation process’ milestone.The selection of two very different ar-tistic forms which have in common the nature of being image, creates an in-teresting overall view and a working method which is highly involved with the creator’s artistic attitude. It acts on collaboration and a shared and shareable modus operandi.

Egos is an artistic crossover.Photography and painting are put to-gether in order to create a very topi-cal conceptual vision, never anach-ronistic. Photography represents the everyone’s unique Ego. Painting acts like mutation, exasperation of usual external events that change the inner universe making it stormy, in continuous evolution. Being transforms itself, takes on several features, some-times contrasting. But it always shines through its primordial condition, trying to come out in order to mistify its being necessary and sufficient condition.

method

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Because of its nature and also for defi-nition, Egos comes from photography and reaches its apex in painting.A structured work that follows a strict method both at the level of timing and variables which made it up.The key point of the project is the wish to create it totally in form of manual art. The tangible part, in fact, is in the center and becomes an integral side of the whole work.As it is said before, Egos starts from photography. The first part of the project is to take photographic black and white portraits with a medium for-mat camera.

This choice has been taken both in or-der to follow the artist’s photographic approach and the project’s conceptual one.Pictures, which are developed in dark room and computerized, are printed on canvas.These ones are painted by the painter following his artistic attitude. He makes his paintings using oil painting, synthetic paint, clothes ad scratched stuffs.The painting starts from photography, from human faces, following the per-sonal colour tastes, being carried away by inspiration.

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Some examples of photographies used to create the canvas.This step is the creation’s beginning.

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As you can see, they are classic portraits.Original photographies are not manipulated at all.

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afterFinished cavas examples. The process is studied in order to make the face image, which transform itself, as the center of the painting.

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afterThe painting process is made of differ-ent layers. Form comes from colours, actions on canvas, scratches. Abstractism versus reality’s copy.

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exhibition

the exhibition’s flyer.

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EGOS first exhibition from February, 9th 2011 in Lugano (Switzerland).The exhibition has been setted up like an event with the presence of several contributions like music and live painting.One of the principal ones was the Le Mépris des Nuages (electro from Italy) dj set who mixed a track for EGOS. This one is now consider the sound-track of the project.Another important activity was the live painting session thought in order to show the oprocess of creation.

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A special thanks goes to all the people who rented their own faces. They has been the essence of the whole project.Another thanks goes to Giulia Giani, Alessandra Angelucci, Mattia Rein-hardt, Federica Godenzi, Rupen Nac-aroglu, Alessio Rattazzi, Cinzia Pug-gioni, Marco Palazzo.

Salvatore Vitale & Jack Martin

contactsEGOS projectwww.egosproject.altervista.org

photographerSalvatore Vitalewww.kaleakte.altervista.orgkaleakte@gmail.com

painterJack Martinjackmartin.goodfellas@gmail.com

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