BLACK FIGURE
Acrylic on Canvas
28x28in
Italy
« The fingerprint as a symbol of a wandering humanity in inevitable labyrinths, metaphors of the mystery of life, looking for further or possible paths »
Giuseppe Corradino, an Italian painter born in Palermo in 1955, currently lives and works in Catania. The desire to draw, which he has been fulfilling since he was a child, taking inspiration from the various comics he collects, leads him to follow an artistic training path that ends with a diploma in painting, obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. After an initial period characterized by works or installations presented as "metaphors" of a social and cultural degradation to reflect on, the great socio-political changes that characterize the beginning of the second millennium inspire a new "sign" research, today expressed by Corradino through the fingerprint, traced by vortices of color or outlined by a flow of words, in which the objective testimony of a real identity refers to hypothetical "labyrinths", metaphors of places where getting lost or finding oneself is only the outcome of a search through which to investigate the meaning of "being there".
"Chosen especially for our library, both powerful and meaningful. Fits perfectly!"
An Art Lover, purchase made in July 2025: "DANTE'S HELL", Acrylic, Sand on Canvas , 19.7x31.5in