Con-stellation

CON-STELLATION

This is a Series of paintings inspired by the constellations of Tolomeo and executed with the "Blind Contour" technique. The size are all different, some not exceeding 20x20 and others not bigger than 3x3 cm.

As a medium I used oil colors and pure amber on a very thin old wooden board.
The last level of painting is the structure of the constellation, a very delicate dotted effect made with white luminescent acrylic paint. So these little artworks have the day and night versions in one piece. Con-stellation Collaction was exhibited in very small rooms with a UV lamp that loaded its luminescence allowing the viewer to discover the graphics of the zodiac sign in the darkness. Each artwork is signed on the back by the artist and provided with the certificate of authenticity

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¨An innovation comes with this latest research of 2016, dedicated to the constellations, which the author also created in oil with a suggestive starlight effect. On his site it is however possible to see studies of an even higher number of constellations reinterpreted in his typical style.

Artistic constellations, late medieval and post-seventeenth century.
The study on the constellations is undoubtedly a very interesting work, due to its rarity in the current art panorama. In reality, the theme of the constellation is very compelling, also due to its position as an artistic theme halfway between the more "humanistic" culture of the classical and pagan Renaissance, which still saw myth and its symbolic values in the constellation, like the Middle Ages. , and the age of the scientific revolution, from the seventeenth century onwards, which increasingly abandons this aspect in favor of geometric accuracy, to the point of transforming the constellation (obviously, into non-existent realities as astrological figures, and only convenient visions sub speciae terrae ) in pure flatus vocis.¨

Lorenzo Barberis