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Alfonso Montana
ITALY
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“For effective communication, I chose simple, colorful and comic elements, as if it were a frame from an animated series.”
Using elements that belonged to my childhood passions and interests, such as dinosaurs and animation and nerd and pop culture, reworking on them as an adult is horrifying, saturated with social denunciation and non-sense comedy.
Apocalypse confrontation | Oil
250$
20 X 30
When I realized this, I thought that dinosaurs became extinct with an apocalypse and we will extinguish a similar but atomic apocalypse
In my artistic works they are characterized by various graphic and material experiments, with a dirty graphic style but at the same time precise, tending to a material painting. Some pictorial experiments have been confirmed in such a way as to undergo a chromatic decomposition over the years, losing pieces of color and lustre, everything always inherent with the theme at the end.
Tumor style | Oil
500$
X 40
I did this work because reading a research I discovered that is a person one on three people have a tumor , like a fashion
My three works, Tumor Style, Apocalypse in Comparison and Humanity, were inspired by fictional and non-fictional news, but graphically I find inspiration from the works of Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst. My intention of these graphic and thematic choices arises from the need to communicate with the viewer, attracting them with funny and wacky images, but leading them to deep reflection and awareness, accompanied by a laugh.
“My work has moved through several ideas, but all of them relate to the theme of the corruption at the end.”
In some ways my artistic and pop works are same and atypical, because more than using the symbols of mass culture I use stories, denunciations and social news, but always using a biting humor.
Human | Oil
500$
50 X 40
Thinking about the human condition I reflected that man is like a puppet, is ridiculous
I made this work thinking of paying homage to portrait of monnalisa in an ironic key
Monnoliso | Oil
500$
50 X 40
Homer Simpson had become a fatherly reference, of course, with all these bizarre premises, that this iconic series had a mythical and sentimental approach for me obviously could not be otherwise with regard to the graphic and artistic, as well as stylistic, sector.
“I have tried to explore my art in different ways: by looking at pollution, at the extinction of biodiversity, with an analysis of how technology is zombifying and degenerating man into a parody of himself.”
“In one of my artworks, “acuì,” I drew great inspiration from the famous animated series, the Simpsons. It was a series that I grew up watching since we were roughly of the same age.”
Those yellow and bizarre depictions in the Simpsons with stories were incredible and surreal parts, the no boorish approach to news stories seasoned with a comic but sometimes prophetic no sense, was a great inspiration and example for my personal artistic approach.
The last unicorn | Oil
500$
50 X 50
I made this work in a surrealist key to denounce the poaching in this case of the rhinoceros
It is no coincidence that I use funny and anthropomorphic creatures and characters in my artistic representations, always. I use news stories with a surreal and comic approach, (but without the pseudo prophetic halo of the famous animated series, unfortunately). One of the Most used and most iconic images for me in my artwork are essentially dinosaurs.
Madonna | Oil
500$
50 X 50
I wanted to make an horrific rapresentation of Madonna
Dinosaurs were the creatures of the animal kingdom (extinct of course). Most of them have struck and tickled my imagination, especially during my childhood. These creatures were so imposing, monstrous with the most disparate shapes, to think that they are majestic and so different from boring mammals. But what hit me the most was not their life but their disappearance, their complete extinction.
I wanted to make a horrific representation of portrait the scream of munch
Scream | Oil
500$
60 X 40
“I grew up watching animated series Simpsons, the series itself raised me, raised me and educated me.”
Shadow face | Charcoal
200$
50 X 40
The first out of three in a series of charcoal portraits with the theme of the human soul
The extinction of the dinosaurs leads me to a series of questions that were fundamental for my personal artistic and philosophical research, how was it possible that such imposing and majestic creatures were exterminated (still today it is not completely known how the dynamics were).
The second out of a series of charcoal portraits with the theme of the human soul
Shadow face | Charcoal
200$
50 X 40
Dinosaurs disappeared because of unspecified natural events. My favorite and funniest theories is that dinosaurs died due to increase in methane. Such incredible creatures became extinct anyway and the only testimony of their existence we have now is their bones. How is that possible, I wondered! What if the same thing happens to us? Especially with the current levels of technology that we have today and the current conflicts.
Shadow face | Charcoal
200$
50 X 40
The third out of a series of charcoal portraits with the theme of human soul
“For me the main goal is to make the viewer laugh and reflect, even bitterly.”
Alfonso Montana
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