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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Vincenzo
Cohen
ITALY
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"The power of creation lies in its message because art can be a means to combat violence. Art is an expression of nature and its potency."
A polyhedric artist, Vincenzo Curcio’s production is the result of a continuous process of historical-scientific research addressed to the representation of cultural content with a naturalistic and social background. Vincenzo is involved in wildlife conservation and often travels through Africa and the Middle East to get inspiration for his art production.
According to historical tradition, the Gorgon Medusa was once a beautiful princess of Libya. The myth informs us that Athena, jealous of her beauty, turned her into a monster by giving her serpentine hair and flaming eyes with petrifying power. The artwork performed in 2021 belongs to the "Portraits in Red and Grey" Collection. The painting depicts her in her seductive power, wrapped in the mist of mystery with fluctuating hair in which snakes creep.
Much of his work consists in reworking of life experiences by using different media, through an expressionist style, by means of photography or through the combination of both techniques. His artistic path is characterized by an eclectic style and is divided into three core themes: historical portrait, wildlife extinction, and marine nature. Recently, Vincenzo has published his personal art catalogue, and some of his artworks are present in prestigious international publications.
The artwork represents Priapus, a deity and symbol of fertility. Its cult dates back to ancient Greece and comes from Anatolia. The god would arouse the wrath of Hera, who, for revenge, would give hima giant phallus. The artwork performed in 1999 by observing a model belongs to the "Twilight" Collection and was named this way for the position recallingthe act of fertilization. It represents the savage, the instinctive, the beastly, the freedom from social conventions and superstructures.
The artist’s path has been mostly focused on the theme of nature and on environmental issues since childhood, when the artist, after a trip to Africa, developed a strong African sickness.
"My artistic path is characterized by an eclectic style and is divided into three core themes: historical portrait, wildlife extinction, and marine nature."
The vision of uncontaminated and wild spaces constitutes for him an ancestral recall to the state of nature and awakens the sense of belonging to a primitive state in which man and nature lived in a deep symbiotic relationship. From these reflections comes, in the artistic imagination, the need to communicate, through art, a message of environmental protection and conservation.
Vincenzo Cohen (birth name, Vincenzo Curcio) is an Italian, classically trained nature artist and photographer. He was born in Zurich (Switzerland), and after spending his childhood in South Italy, he moved to Rome to undertake academic studies. In 2002, he graduated in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2005, he held his first solo exhibition. In 2007, he achieved his second master's degree in archaeology from the "La Sapienza" University in Rome. He currently works as a higher education art teacher in Italy.
The art collections, performed over the years, address each differently the nature theme.
emanates luminescent flows. The painting belongs to the "Portraits in red and grey" Collection.
"Reinterpreting myths through human experience, fighting injustice, breaking silence, and shooting down the barriers of diversity by erecting the breastplate of inner force, he elevates himself from the delirium of creation so as not to die in the darkness of forgetfulness."
The painting, created for the Dante Alighieri International Prize, is inspired by the commemorative monument created in 1865 by the sculptor U. Zannoni and placed in Piazza dei Signori in Verona. The artwork represents the great poet of the national literary tradition according to Boccaccio's description "with a long face and an aquiline nose. (..) large jaws (...) and always a melancholy and pensive face". The figure of the poet wrapped in the lucco, typical vest, stands out austere against the infernal scenery in its composure and reflective solemnity. In the background are represented the souls of the lustful, placed in the second circle of hell (Inferno, canto V). Condemned for having abandoned themselves to carnal sin and having suffered a violent death, they are enveloped in eternal flames and dragged impetuously from side to side by the currents of the infernal whirlwind. Among the figures represented are the two lovers Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, held in a suspended embrace, and the Carthaginian queen Didone.
The collections Italica and Portraits in red and gray deal with the theme of body representation in its different shapes and manifestations as an expression of nature.
The painting belongs to the "Twilight" Collection (1997-2001), first pictorial production of the artist. It represents the unconscious fears emerging from the depths. The artwork comes from a hallucination caused by the observation of a stone in which the artist glimpses a scary face. Along with the other works in this collection, it represents a troubled state of mind in which reside instinctive forces in opposition. Dark tones predominate.
In the Italica collection, freedom of expression is evoked through a naturalistic style. In Twilight and Portraits in red and grey, man is the spokesman, through the expression of the myth and the historical portrait of universal values intended to exalt the creation and the nature interpreted, in some cases, as a manifestation of the divine. These collections are realized with oil techniques.
The artwork is part of the "Extinction" Collection and represents the opposition between East and West that led to the Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean after the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. But what does fire represent in the pictorial imagination? Fire attracts, emanates, ignites, blazes, evokes, overheats, expands, burns, inflames, destroys, and purifies. Fire is the element that symbolizes the elevation, the call to the otherworld, the passion, and the spell of transmutation of matter.
The collections Extinction and Marine Nature focus on issues related to the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. The first refers to the progressive extinction of species, living spaces, and civilization; the second to the theme of the sea as an inexhaustible source of life and to the importance of preserving waters, seascapes, and sea-beds. The aim of the latter is to raise public awareness through an impactful artistic message. The Marine Nature Collection analyzes the issues of desertification, global warming, and plastic contamination and their related consequences in the environmental field. The collection also has historical and psychological meanings.
The artwork, part of the "Marine Nature" Collection (2019–21), focuses on the effects of climate change by highlighting phenomena such as the progressive advancement of desertification, the expansion of unproductive areas, and the sterility of land caused by global warming. The absence of water, evident in the work through the use of a warm and purple chromatism, represents the process of dessication and the loss of man’s primary resource, while a dried-up material crust represents a land now sterile.
"My personal art catalogue and artworks have been presented in prestigious international publications."
The artwork is part of the "Marine Nature" Collection (2019–21). Pelagic crusts and submerged seabeds recall to mind ancient shipwrecks of travelers, navigations, and explorations of the abysses of an ancient sea. In the artist's imagination, the marine world is closely linked to the image of water as a symbol of intrauterine reunion with the mother. The sea calls to mind memories of childhood, strengthens family ties, and recalls the world of a lost naivety.
In fact, the theme stems from the need to express one's own sense of belonging to the sea. The artist comes from a southern town where the presence of the sea influences the way to feel nature and perception of reality. The collection aims at the recovery of the historical tradition and seeks to combine different interests in history, art of the territory, environmentalism, biology, geology, and archaeology.
Tectonic crusts represent the plasticity of form through the processes of formation, slippage, and stratification of the geological plates. The dimorphism of the earth is expressed by its capacity for expansion and contraction. Telluric forms originating through plurimillenary phenomena in continuous dynamism express the sense of natural evolution that does not stop but is constantly changing. The artwork is part of the "Marine Nature" Collection.
The artistic technique consists in creating a material mixture made with plaster, glue, sand, organic sediments like shells and inorganic substance of volcanic origin deposited on sea-beds and ocean floor such as pumice stone and fine clay mixed with anthropic productions (ceramic fragments, wood) as remembrance of the history of the peoples who have sailed the Mediterranean.
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Sea depth, chromatic suggestions, and emotions evoked by the sea The artwork is included in the "Marine Nature" Collection, performed between 2019 and 2021. The painting was made with mixed media on circular format (mixture of dough based on plaster, sand and marine sediments, surface painted with oil technique). It represents the depths of a sea, with silvery shades shining on the seafloor. The work aims to draw attention to the importance of preserving waters, seascapes, and seabeds.