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Mauro Folci

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Art vidéo | dv | couleur | 3:33 | Italie | 2009

A man is sitting at a desk opposite a lion, whose paws rest on the desk, an implicit, strictly formal cross-reference to a painting by Antonio Colantonio, Saint Hyeronimus in his study (1455) in which the saint extracts a thorn from a lion`s paw. The imagine focuses on the two figures and on the strange interaction between the animal`s paw and the man`s hands. As a result of the bare surroundings, both the interplay between the hands and the paws and the man`s closeness to the enormous beast sitting solemnly opposite his minute body stand out. The hands and the paws rest on the table at a proximity emphasized by the black background.

Mauro Folci Lives beetween Rome and Milan. Visual artist and Performative Art professor at Brera Art Accademy Milan.