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Italy
Drawing, oil pastel on Paper
Size: 11.4 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
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This artwork is very dear to me. It is one of the few, at least so far, inspired by photographs that I took in Italy. The man portrayed here is my brother in law, he is a chef in his family restaurant. I captured him in a rare moment of rest. You can see he is still wearing his chef clothes and he is probably checking his Facebook feed (when I took this picture Instagram was not a thing yet). Marco is so young an yet so talented and, together with his brothers and the rest of the family is bringing his old family restaurant to new, exciting heights. I always loved to stop here and invite some friends over when I was coming back for holidays from London, as Da Ciccio has always some new dish and at the same time, everyone feels at home and once you have tried it, you want to go there again and again. I really like that people from different ages want to go there to celebrate milestones in their life, like it was decades ago. Like in many of my drawings the central focus is a man, being a feminist I want to give space to different kinds of beauty and I want to celebrate male beauty too. Behind Marco you can probably spot a model of a ship (he loves to sail and fish, of course, he was born on the Amalfi Coast) and what it looks like a Greek temple. I like to think of these objects as symbols of the culinary family tradition (they cook mainly organic produce from the family vegetables garden following the mediterranean diet) that Marco and his crew are brining on and into the future. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube, I recommend to take it as soon as possible to a framer, to professionally flatten it back and to provide a frame with a glass, as the oil pastel needs to be protected from the dust.
Drawing:oil pastel on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.4 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Ships From:Italy.
Customs:Shipments from Italy may experience delays due to country's regulations for exporting valuable artworks.
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"Mary Cinque is an Italian painter, graphic designer and blogger working and living in the Amalfi Coast. Her works – joyful, bright, colourful painting and drawings – are inspired by this place, as well as her heritage, background and travels. Mary spent her childhood between Italy and Ethiopia. Before moving back to the Amalfi Coast in 2019, she has lived in Naples and Milan, where she attended academies of fine art; and Philadelphia, New York and London where she improved her artistic skills and style. Alongside making art, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with selected brands, working on artistic commissions such as illustrations, labels and showroom design. Cinque’s art develops themes connected with what makes us essentially humans: our habitat – the buildings, the streets, the cities – our bodies, what we eat and how we socialise. Art, in Mary’s paintings, becomes a powerful instrument of philosophical investigation which reveals who we really are by questioning our habits, observing those characteristic traits we share as a species, often without realising it. The artist looks at human beings from a different perspective, making interesting and significant what can seem normal or banal to us in our everyday life: the buildings that populate our cities, the streets we walk, people sitting across our table at a café, strangers on the bus. In this nutshell interview by Giulia Corti, Mary Cinque explores some of the most relevant aspects of her art and reflects on how it offers an intriguing and informative perspective about the way we live as human animals. Mary, your art is colourful and vivid, it mixes human and urban subjects by making use of various techniques (oil painting; pastel drawing, markers, “digital” drawing, print-making etc.) and materials (canvasses, magazine pages, an I-pad screen). How do you choose the means with which to develop an artwork and how do the different materials and techniques influence what you want to convey, if they do? Different subjects call for different techniques. Buildings and urbanscape are always acrylic on canvas, while I prefer to depict people using a quicker, immediate approach, like the one that I can get with markers and oil pastels or digital painting. By looking at the main themes of your art, it is possible to notice what seems to be a tension. On one hand, you portrayed the stillness and artificiality of urban landscapes and buildings (e.g.
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