Saul Zanolari
Title EYEMAZING SUSANYear 2006
Print Lambda print
Paper size 70 x 90 cm
Price €4.200,00
Paper size #2 108x140 cm
Price #2 €4.900,00
Edition of 5
Print provenance Artist
Markings Signed and numbered by the artist on the verso
Extra print info Glossy Paper
Artist Biography
Born in Mendrisio / Switzerland in 1977
Saul first exhibited in 2005 in a small gallery in Milan.
His rise to international success has been astonishing; he now has works in permanent collections in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Basel, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Although his passion for painting and sculpture was evident from a very young age, he decided to study philosophy. It is easy to see the influence of a philosophical brain in his work. Saul works in an analytical way; a complex layering of interpretation flows from each of Saul's portraits giving us a new version of his subject. His subjects are: friends, stars, famous drag queens, icons of a fantastic world and select international commissions. Like an aesthetic surgeon, Saul morphs, squeezes and twists forms; he changes human bodies into artificial lifeforms which are trapped in a Zanolari world.
Like a contemporary Dorian Gray, his subjects harbour dark and secret souls and, with a good measure of irony, they become: icons of universal themes - beauty, motherhood, problems of adolescence -, and some highlight issues like artificial insemination, solitude and depression. Saul creates a new artistic amalgam - not photography, not digital imagery, not painting, but a complex fusion of all three.
The outcome is an ex novo portrait: an innovative artistic work.
The world of Saul Zanolari is silent and dark, his subjects trapped in time, motionless with a twisted glint in their eyes.
Artist published in EYEMAZING
#1-2007
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