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Elio Ticca is an artist working with painting, sculpture and installation. Ticca inquires the relations between historic and contemporary artistic languages, matrix and copy, authenticity and fictionality, harmonizing surrealism, pop aesthetics and speculative realism. With a process of camouflage and re-creation, he investigates how affect can be represented, deconstructed, and reimagined across cultural and conceptual frameworks. His art, invested with an inherent affective agency, becomes eventually an invitation to explore forgotten and new horizons, and a direct portal into the oneiric and the unconscious.
PSYCHERMES
AFTER MORONI
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Mimetic Desire – After Moroni, a triptych, plays with the tropes of copy and plagiarism in art and, more broadly, contemporary popular culture. The work consists of copies whose colors are slightly enhanced, altered, or lightened, made after Renaissance works by Giovanni Battista Moroni, one of the most virtuous portraitists in 1500 Italy. The aim of the series is to raise questions on authenticity, forgery, and fetishisation of contemporary fashion brands, as well as to question what a copy in art really is, and what originallity and uniqueness mean to us today.
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THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
THE HEAVENLY KEYS
ALLEGORY OF VIRTUE
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