"Il problema oggi non è l'energia nucleare ma il cuore dell'uomo - Albert Einstein" by Il Toso.

Features:

- Technique: oil paint on cardboard, finishing varnish
- Dimensions: 13x18 cm, frame 54x44x4,5 cm
- Year: 2019

Recovered frames covered using collage technique to depict a muddle of ancient golden baroque frames with the insertion of golden cherubs pointing to huge disaster. Covered with vitrifying resin.

The premonitory title invites thought. The painting depicts the mushroom cloud of an atomic explosion; the color of the melting fire contrasts with the blue of the sky, giving a feeling of tension and macabre charm. It is a result of the knowledge and technological development of man. The question that arises is: to what end?

Toso is a contemporary Milanese artist, born in 1975, who has always been fascinated by the most eccentric expressions of art, always keeping the great Italian painting as a reference point. Lover of decontextualization and irony that is not always veiled, researcher of details and experimenter. His works represent, in a continuum of space and time, the memories and contemporaneity of Milan, the city in which he lives. However, without neglecting to describe the obvious contradictions. Growing up in a popular context, he realizes from an early age the social difference that the metropolis offers, starting to communicate through oil painting; an unusual technique for the times when pop art and graffiti are the masters. Although his paintings do not find a market or positive criticism, Toso does not lose heart, as his purpose is not to sell but to communicate. He begins to use the walls of his city as if they were the walls of an open air museum by posting in his paintings framed and leaving them at the mercy of time and the public will with very interesting results such as scarring, destruction, theft or simple corrosion. due to bad weather.