Davide - I'm Just a Dreamer
Private collection
Mixed media on paper

Collection Tracce di Mondi

Davide - I'm Just a Dreamer

Mixed media on paper · 21 × 30 cm

A self-portrait of the artist, gaze straight ahead, Fedora hat and well-kept beard. The dark figure stands out against a gold-leaf background worked into texture; around the neck, a voluminous silk scarf with an abstract…

Technique
Mixed media on paper
Dimensions
21 × 30 cm
Year
2017
Edition
Unique piece
Support
Paper
Frame
Not included

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Work in progress

The creative process

Every artwork passes through distinct phases before reaching its final form. Here are some images from the journey.

The portrait on the gold and black background, the face barely sketched and the scarf still white
The beard and the first black motifs on the scarf
The black and white scarf completed
The finished, signed work
Detail of the face beneath the hat
Detail of the folds of the black and white scarf
What they say about me

What they say about this work

  • «Having overturned the academic Course of Painting, having attained the spiritual in Art, Davide Cristofaro manages to halt every flood of the visionary dream with the primary energy of intuition, and to stop time with the immortality of his own inner, subjective wonder at images held in a state of abstractist suspension, bringing out the chromatic magic of a Neo-Expressionism induced in the viewer, a meditative tantra of intimist joy.»

    Portrait of Alfredo PasolinoAlfredo PasolinoInternational critic and art historianRead the full text
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