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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 26.4x26.4in
About this artwork
The composition was created for the "Transportation" painting competition held in Breganze (Vicenza) in 2011/12 on the subject of Nazi deportations and was the winner of the first prize. The painter avoids the more conventional stereotypes and the spectacularization of pain, to instead tell the drama in a more intimate key through the faces and the expressiveness of the protagonists. Four panels to evoke the memories and reflections of a man who…
thinks back to his mother, sunny in the memory of a photo in a frame with shattered glass; he sees the children imprisoned in the trains for deportation, and the bodies reduced to mere matter by inhuman hands. The frame is an integral part of the work: it is in fact made with recycled wood as a metaphor for man reused as raw material by the Nazi madness. The surface is articulated as it arises from the assembly of various painted wooden elements, therefore the dimensions indicated are the maximum overall dimensions.
Marco Ronga
Italy
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Covered by the Press
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« A mirror reflects a face and art reflects the soul. »
Marco Ronga is an experienced painter, draftsman, and sculptor based in Italy whose works have been exhibited nationally and in England. He describes his works as fusing themes of the portrait and the human figure with suggestions of urban architecture and the landscape resuting in "portraits of places and landscapes of bodies". Ronga's painterly compositions are most often created with acrylics and oils on wood or canvas.
Marco Ronga
Prima della fine
$6,450