Desire - Donald Duck

The work draws on a pop aesthetic in its use of famous or mass-produced images and their pictorial reworking. Pop Art emerged in the United States in the second half of the 20th century as a result of artists' interest in and critique of the contemporary "consumer society." All expressions of Pop Art presuppose a sort of double bond with the world of consumerism and mass media. On the one hand, the artwork is reduced to a mere consumer product, thanks to the use of advertising language in the works and their serial reproduction through mechanical processes. On the other, the mass-produced images themselves become works of art, as a more genuine and truthful expression of the new society and thanks to the artist's recontextualization.

The artist Desiderio bases his artistic production on the pictorial representation of popular icons (taken from the world of mass media, comics, and literature). The image is taken and recontextualized by the artist through a highly complex pictorial technique. The brushstrokes are thick and dense, constructing the image with an effective sense of structure. The massified image, emptied of meaning, regains its identity through the artist's intervention.

Desiderio was born in Milan in 1978 but lives and works in Terni. Besides painting, he is also interested in music and video. He began as an illustrator, later gaining extensive experience and traveling extensively, participating in exhibitions (MACRO in Rome) and biennials (Venice and Havana). In Cuba, he made his first feature film, "Ahora si llego!" (Now I'm Here!). A few years ago, he created an online portal called Coocuyo, designed to raise awareness of the Cuban electronic music scene worldwide.

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