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Malaparte House (Day)

Enoc Perez

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Maramotti collection

Maramotti collection

Via Fratelli Cervi, 66, Reggio Emilia

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Casa Malaparte, the project created by Enoc Perez for the Maramotti Collection, consists of these two large oil paintings: "Casa Malaparte (Day)" and "Casa Malaparte (Night)". The subject is a true icon of Italian modernist architecture. Designed and built in Capri in the late thirties by Curzio Malaparte himself, it was intensely "cut to its own size" by the writer who called it "home like me". The project is in continuity with the research, started by the Puerto Rican artist in the second half of the nineties, on the architecture of the 1920s / 1950s and on how these have been transfigured, by the collective imagination, into social forms / metaphors of power, fascination, beauty in an era full of optimism towards the future. But his paintings evoke, at the same time, the disillusionment with a vanished dream and the “purely phantasmic and mental consistency of the images”. Here, too, the figures that Perez extracts from the photographic or filmic society to “act as painting” refer to a questioning on the modern role of painting itself and on its capacity for renewal. Enoc Perez's painting is the result of a complex process. The transfer of color on the canvas takes place without the use of brushes, starting from a series of sketches drawn in pencil on the paper: individual sketches for each color that the artist will use for the painting. Subsequently the artist applies a layer of color on the back of the sheet, color which is then transferred to the back of the canvas by tracing the design. The process is comparable to the monoprint, a particular mechanical printing, enriched by a complex manual skill in the process of creating the work. Rich images gradually develop from the many layers, creating rough and abraded effects on the surface which, while preserving a rich color texture, take on a strongly evocative character, emphasizing a sort of "nostalgia" of the material.
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Title: Malaparte House (Day)

Author: Enoc Perez

Date: 2008

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Maramotti collection

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