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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Collage on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 55.1x55.1in
About this artwork
The upper part is the support for a 7mn video
made by Antonio Cacciatore on the island of Lampedusa.
Video link: https://youtu.be/oDpuKy-GMCY
In a necessary step back from the anecdote and the news, the Home series by Antonio Cacciatore offers a metaphorical and meditative perspective on the theme of migration and exile.
The earth, that which one leaves and that which one finds, the departure and the crossing, the obstacles and the burdens.…
Men, women, children, workers, here and elsewhere, yesterday and today - whatever the categories in which they are placed. These silhouettes, of back or lowered faces, vaulted or tense, are in movement, like so many figures of the resolution.
These migrants, Antonio Cacciatore, himself the son of Sicilian immigrants, painted them as symbols of willingness to live.
made by Antonio Cacciatore on the island of Lampedusa.
Video link: https://youtu.be/oDpuKy-GMCY
In a necessary step back from the anecdote and the news, the Home series by Antonio Cacciatore offers a metaphorical and meditative perspective on the theme of migration and exile.
The earth, that which one leaves and that which one finds, the departure and the crossing, the obstacles and the burdens.…
Men, women, children, workers, here and elsewhere, yesterday and today - whatever the categories in which they are placed. These silhouettes, of back or lowered faces, vaulted or tense, are in movement, like so many figures of the resolution.
These migrants, Antonio Cacciatore, himself the son of Sicilian immigrants, painted them as symbols of willingness to live.
Antonio Cacciatore
France
Credentials
- Prizewinner
- Works on commission
« Painting generates a renewable pleasure which makes one happy to get up in the morning with an idea of what one is going to do during the course of the day. »
Antonio Cacciatore, previously a consultant in the business district of La Défense in Paris, is a visual artist of Italian origin born in 1966 in Metz.