Peixe 2

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas... more

by Julio Roriz

Title

Peixe 2

Artist

Julio Roriz

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas
�Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity� � Ecclesiastes (1:2)

The picture with capitalistic interest has similarities nowadays to the still lives of the 16th century in Holland, in both times a search for the exuberance of the elements presented is evident, conveying an aspiration to ostentation and luxury.
Formally, the Baroque kept itself in the painting of still lifes, even though the main buyers were bourgeois needing to show material well-being, which is at least a paradox, for the Baroque was a much used style in sacred art, a means for morality.
Analysing commercial pictures produced today, sumptuous objects in reach of very few are used to promote goods, sometimes of basic need.
The conveyed narrative in the message of those pictures is that of a life full of mundane pleasures, which would be understandable if this aesthetic would limit itself to the promotion of commercial goods, but it is inevitable to lead to the production of fiction narratives, imposing an everlasting pressure on society.
It seems therefore natural to reconstruct this image universe of moralizing and critical of all mundane actions, of predatory activities and hierarchy makers in social living, of the injustice felt in the unbalanced distribution of goods and wealth.
In these projects I have started off from the mimetic of still lifes, simplifying the elements taking part in the picture, however letting foresee an ambience that takes us back to the Baroque painting.

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November 5th, 2013