Hysteria art gallery presents clementine: the new york artist for the first time on show in italy

"Conscious living is a choice to look beyond the surface and what flows in depth, in ourselves and how we get in touch with the world around us. I believe in conscious painting; creating works of art as a means of reflecting the society, generate awareness and social intervention ".

Here's what art is for New York visual artist Clementine. Being able to inspire and open your eyes through the creative act, with an approach able to instill awareness and change to those who look at the work of art. Reflect the world in a way that can be shared with those who do not embark on an exploratory journey, but are ready to receive the message from one of them.

And so, in a period of drastic evolution for the soul of the artist, a journey through the most remote villages of East Africa, marked by poverty where children and orphans find themselves, every day, having to face adversities of every kind and nature that threatens their lives, their existence, comes to life the last effort by Clementine artist entitled: "Being Selfless in a Selfie World".

A collection in which the prevalent social media narcissism - made of ostentation, mass consumerism and self-consumption - overlaps with the world, the real one, and the adversities that afflict it.

Each work of art is composed of two parts: a painting on canvas and a painting on plexiglass that covers the canvas.

The paintings on canvas are mixed techniques, in which the images on canvas are converted through a process of transferring the photo. The colors of the painting and the inspiring elements of the region are abstract on the canvas, allowing the photographic images to appear in artistic form.

The paintings on plexiglass, "art filters", have paintings of lips that represent a selfie pucker. The lips are painted backwards, leaving a free space (the shape itself) to see through the colored canvas behind it.

The work as a whole is a call to action for society to look beyond the self. The beauty of the art experience is that no matter what, it's already a victory for someone to simply see the work. The very act of seeing art is already an act of awareness, as the viewer looks beyond the filter of the selfie and faces a world of others who need our attention.

INFO SHOW:

When: 9 October - 9 November 2019

Vernissage: 9 October 2019 from h. 19:00 at h. 21:30

Where: Hysteria Art Gallery - Via A. Cappellini, 20 (MI)

Chiara Mattavelli - Hysteria Art Gallery