Dario Cusani, Castellovo USA, Print, 2023

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Technique photo-painting the technique used was defined as photo-painting by the art critic silvia pegoraro of ravenna italy and was … Read more Technique photo-painting the technique used was defined as photo-painting by the art critic silvia pegoraro of ravenna italy and was an artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 1964 dario cusani had been working with photography and painting which had never been united. In 1994 i returned to naples, the city where i was born and had been missing for 10 years after moving to rome in 1984. I returned to see the miracle achieved by the g7 with the presidents of the most powerful countries led by bill clinton, us president. It was a wonderful visit to my city reborn in its ancient splendor! i took over 5,000 photos of the squares and monuments of naples with my nikon. I returned to rome and had all the photos printed and put them on various tables and assembled all the various pieces. I immediately realized that parts were missing which i completed with paint. A spontaneous gesture with which i had unconsciously achieved a great innovation: i had combined the reality of photography with the dream represented by painting. Silvia, my muse who knew me well, when i showed her the first work imperating male (r:0176) that i had done she said to me: "dario you have united the two worlds of your life: that of your childhood with the sensitivity of the dreamer with the concrete one that they gave you taught your parents with education, studies (degree in economic sciences) and work started at 15 years old in your family's copper industry. These formative years had distanced myself from those of childhood when i studied the piano and dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor. I also drew and painted with my imagination in search of the affections i was missing. In fact my parents were busy in the factory (copper production) rebuilding italy destroyed by the recently ended war. I then refined photo-painting which developed into digital processing having replaced the brush with the mouse to fill the gaps left by the photography and complete the reality which with painting became another fantastic reality. Social research this work is part of the social "research" which addresses issues that concern people and the "polis" which in latin means city but also "political model". Naples that is leaving this work with the technique of digital processing and connected to my exhibition of 2000 in the usa. In fact it recalls the early '900 when many neapolitans (and southern italy) were forced to migrate to the united states to find work. A memory sung in a beautiful neapolitan song depart the bastions\. Made even sadder by an anecdote that occurred at the port of naples just before the departure of the ship. There the children (all male) greeted the parents and in particular the mother they would never see again. So everyone took the head of a ball that had his mother in his hand and climbed on board and positioned on the bow. So son and mother remained connected and from the bow descended hundreds of colored wires. When tugs began to move the ship away from the dock, the skeins unrolled until the thread escaped from the hands of the mother and the detachment was definitive. Each son then wrapped his thread that he carried as a reminder of that last poignant moment. I also felt a similar feeling when i moved to rome after the 1980 earthquake in naples with the city abandoned by politicians and in the grip of delinquency. I too felt "migrant" even if in a much less painful way than those young people of the beginning of the century. To make this image of the movement i detached from the mainland the castel dell'ovo symbol of naples and with a simple wake in the sea i gave him the movement. The success of this work was immediate! this piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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