A stunning sculpture by Gianluica Traina will be exhibited very soon at the Town Center Costa del Este, Panama.
LUZ BOTERO Contemporary Art
Portrait 360°|Panama is the best
2017
Paper foam, pvc
250 x 187 x 186 cm
re-imagines the notion of portraiture by combining 2D and 3D elements in his portrait 360 series.
Tra le tante installazioni ed esposizioni del Fuori Farm 2017 potrete vedere anche Portrait 360° di Gianluca Traina all’interno dell’ Alba Palace, il nuovissimo luxury hotel di Favara.
Gianluca Traina è un artista edesigner siciliano, ha unito abilità artigianale e medoto progettuale per creare degli ibridi tra arte e design chiamati “Portrait 360°”
Attratto dall’estetica dei mosaici bizantini, ispirato dalla tecnica della tessitura e dalle immagini digitali, gioca con la seconda e la terza dimensione creando delle sculture di carta intrecciata.
La sua ricerca si focalizza sul ritratto umano attraverso il quale racconta l’importanza del volto nella società contemporanea,i luoghi e le tradizioni ad esso legati. il suo progetto Portrait 360° ha conquistato in poco tempo il mondo intero, è stato raccontato in 97 paesi diversi e nel 2013 Gianluca Traina vince a Tokyo il premio “Asia Awards” come miglior creativo per i paesi Asiatici.
Le sue opere sono permanentemente esposte in delle gallerie di Miami, Chiacago, New York, Panama, Shanghai e Singapore.
E’ con l’oriente che Gianluca Traina ha un feeling speciale, è appena tornato dalla Cina dopo 3 mesi di residenza per artisti dove ha sviluppato un nuovo processo per la rappresentazione di Immagini a 360°. Tre delle opere realizzate in Cina sono oggi qui esposte per creare un dialogo con la sua precedente produzione, una connessione tra oriente e occidente per raccontarci la bellezza del volto umano e la sua diversità con dei ritratti privati nella forma dei loro caratteri distintivi, ridotti all’essenza e usati come spazio per raccontare uomini e mondi.
Dopo aver conquistato il mondo con le sue opere Gianluca Traina è onorato e orgoglioso di esporre per la prima volta la sua produzione artistica a casa, in Sicilia, e a Favara, in un contesto esclusivo e intimo come quello dell’Alba Palace Hotel.
Matt Randal
A special portrait to Maria Ivakova for the television broadcast “Орёл и решка, Oryol i Reshka, Heads and Tails” during the shooting in Sicily, from the series of artworks Portrait 360°
Portraits are 360° degrees views of humans social. Humans that share their own face, face that in Portrait360° is conceived with an unusual rotation of the face
Attracted by the beauty of Byzantine mosaics and starting from the concept of warp and weft, I developed a system of representations of the image curious and innovative.
I started to investigate the ways in which a sheet of paper can change according to the type of cutting and bending and I have identified in the process of weaving an alternative way for the realization of three-dimensional object adapted to the shapes of the body. I used these two-dimensional surfaces such as pictorial space and trough an elaborate system of digitization of the image I created three-dimensional portraits. The result is a colored sculpture of paper intertwined.
Despite the amazing complexity of the realization, the forms created staged an authentic game of surfaces, shapes and colors. It’s express the will to intrigue the viewer through a visual and tactile experience. The observer is thus encouraged to active the elaborate process of perception based on sensory and cultural contrast. Approved in the form.
Are portraits. Are people. Are anonymous identity. It’s an abnormality of thought. Portrait360° represents profiles contemporary people to 360 degrees.
Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 40 cm for each
Material: paper, pvc
Artist: Gianluca Traina, Italy
AVAILABLE AT ROBERT FONTAINE GALLERY
Art Wynwood 2016 | Miami, Florida | Feb 11-15
With Robert Fontaine Gallery | Booth AW1
Portrait 360° 2012 artworks
New and past artworks about Portrait 360°
All artworks are available at Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (USA)
Attracted by the beauty of fabric construction and starting from the concept of warp and weft, I developed a system of representation of the image curious and innovative.
I started to investigate the ways in which a sheet of paper can change according to the type of cutting and bending, and I have identified in the system of weaving an alternate way to construct three-dimensional shapes. The idea is not to create three-dimensional objects based on body shape, but turning a two-dimensional surface like paper or canvas, 3D object adapted to body shapes. I have been using these two-dimensional surfaces as pictorial space and through an elaborate system of digitization of the image I created three-dimensional portraits. The result is a colorful sculpture of paper or canvas intertwined. Are portraits. Are people. Anonymous identities. It is an abnormality of mind. Portraits are a 360° of contemporary people.
Despite the surprising complexity of implementation, the forms created enact an authentic game of surfaces, shapes and colours. It expressed willingness to intrigue the viewer through a Visual and tactile experience, activating of processed perceptual processes based on sensory and cultural contrast.
Portrait360 is the human being urban, global and contemporary. Approved form. With city stars. Free to be aesthetically anonymous. Are visions to 360 degrees in human beings social, which put us face. Make that Portrait360 is conceived as head wear. Therefore available to changes in taste.
Dimensions: 50 x 40 x 40 cm
Material: paper, canvas, painting
Artist: Gianluca Traina, Italy
Opera in concorso
autore: Gianluca Traina
info: 45 x 100 cm – cuoio, carta, smalto – 2012
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