BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Painting with a holistic approach to life, the earth, the physical-psycho-social balance of humans in daily life – why not?
talian painter Nicola Alessandrini has produced a somewhat surreal body of drawings and paintings during his relatively short career that appears to be turning the body, the animal world, and the plant world inside out to better understand the core systems that create balance and imbalance. In this new mural he just finished in Santa Croce di Magliano, you can see that again he is creating relationships between our corporeal systems and those of the earth.
“The artwork represents a human body connecting two different forms of life, soil and lymphatic systems,” he says. He tells us that the two plants are embraced by the body and that the woman’s floral dress is a fertile soil that connects the two plants and gives energy and nutrition to the body.
Completed as a the sixth edition of Premio Antonio Giordano, the artist consulted with public health initiative called AVIS (Association of Voluntary Italian Blood Donors) and hoped to develop a metaphorical way to represent their conversations.
“I like the idea that giving blood is not just something physical,” says Allissandrini, “but it is also a mental predisposition, a practice of giving and sharing.”
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