COWMAN of the world - Press release Artwork

Digital print, about performance 2009, Scuderie Aldobrandini Museum, Frascati (Rome), dim. 400cm x 400cm. Introduction of subject "COWMAN" 2009 The "COWMAN" represents the icon of the fusion between the cow and the human body and becomes the symbol of the union among nature and civilization. Product of metamorphosis and mutation, means metaphor of creativeness. creativity. THE COWMAN - L'UOMOMUCCA is born sporadic and simultaneously in different continents: "Eastern Africa COWMAN", "North America COWMAN", " Europe COWMAN", "South-Eastern Australia COWMAN", "Eastern Asia COWMAN", "South America COWMAN". Their existence is necessary to re-establish the equilibrium of life on our Earth. The COWMAN is descending from "Man - Animal" ("Animal-Man) and represent his evolved form. Hi means a new "creature" that our conservation and survival spirit searches.(find) The cow symbolizes nourishment, the nature, the instinct, the ancestral, the sacredness, the Earth. Human beings represent intelligence, consciousness and civilization. Today, the interplay between, on the hand, the ancestral, the natural and, on the other, civilization becomes difficult because of the intrusive presence of human creatures on Earth. The COWMAN is the ideal prototype of the new creature living on earth, protagonist of the future, born to restore the precious equilibrium of our world. We live in a period of significant psycho-social, political, economical and spiritual problems. The winning back of an equilibrium entails solving the problem of pollution, fighting for peace on Earth and for equal distribution of resources, returning to nature, re-evaluating common social, ethical and cultural values. The COWMAN carries this message of vitality and life. This new creature multiplies on all continents to became one population. The COWMAN evolve and becomes the "COWMAN OF THE WORLD", citizen of the world. His message is positivity. Represent the history of our conditioned transformation and of evolution of our spirit. And of Our spiritual evolution. This subject represents my artistic and philosophical thinking about our world, today. It stands as the conclusion of my work on the "Metamorposis". I began working around this theme 20 years ago, when my favourite works were the drawings, engravings and lithographies. Then, I started to use the body of animals (cow, horse, wild boar, pork) and the human body as pretexts in my creations (web site: ). I worked on the cow for 20 years and now my subject has evolved to became a potential superior creature. I work about this theme, subject, topic by 2006, realizing, accomplishing materic and digital works, in two-dimensional and three-dimensional form and installations. I painted the compositions with acrylic colours on canvas, using the COWMAN as a pretext. On top of this icon, the composition, realized with wood painted in bright colours, contains my subjective inner projections. The presence of words in the composition is important. The text is written in sand from different beaches of the world (Sardegna, Calabria, Fiumicino, Venezia, Rimini in Italy; Costa Brava in Spain Tripoli) in different nuance, rough sand. The content of the text is a fragment history of jazz, found on newspaper. This text gives the subject a contemporary and rhythmic meaning. I used a digital printed drawing on paper and developed the project of the Metamorphosis of the COWMAN.