Description
We all remember the material from which the containers for tomato sauce, oil or other foods were made. In the work we are presenting to you, tin has become the key element. With the tin Ciro composed his painting of still life.
As Ciro says: the meaning of the expression “still life” (in Italian “dead nature”) is ambivalent. Can nature die?
Ciro doesn’t use words to answer this question. With his ability to give life back to what seems to no longer have the reason to exist, he confirms: non-nature cannot die or, rather, nothing in nature can die.
Here are the elements that make up the still life piece of art:
The lid of an old wine barrel, as the body of the whole framework.
The leaves are the pieces cut out of the pieces of an old chandelier.
There are also lathe shavings that show up as stems.
The background of the whole picture is a cast on plasterboard stucco with coffee laying.
The flowers that almost overflow from the vase (from the tin), express a certain abundance and fertility of life that comes when the uselessness and nonsense of what was once discarded is overcome with a glance.
