In yesterday's post we looked at an architectural inspiration derived from a natural material (mud) interpreted in a fashion collection that provided interesting surface elaborations.
Let's continue the thread today and look very briefly at how natural elements and landscapes are employed to create intriguing surface effects on canvases by Giuseppe Adamo. The Sicilian artist has currently got an exhibition entitled "Landing" (until 20th April) at Venice's Marignana Arte.
Adamo reworks on his canvases the textures of natural landscapes, creating on their surfaces stratifications, corrugations and complex crinkled contortions of matters and colours.
The palette is also borrowed from the natural world and goes from vivid greens inspired by the colour of grass to sky blues and earthy browns.
The paintings represent for the artist also a way to play with the perceptions of the viewer: while looking at his canvases it is easy to wonder if what you see is an illusion created by the layers of paint or if Adamo actually applied on his canvases these stratified sequences of matter. Want to solve the mystery about Adamo's technique? Try and catch one of his exhibitions and you'll discover it. But in the meantime, knitwear designers out there should maybe try and experiment a bit, recreating these corrugations similiar to depositional laminations on their designs
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