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Italian Sito Web: http://www.pietroruffo.com See also: "CP02", "CP04","Focus On 01" nel nostro video - Podcast Trained as a painter, Ruffo most recently works with photography and drawing combining both mediums in order to create layered and complex works. Ruffo uses photographs made by professional photographers. He gives the photographers specific circumstances they must investigate in order to take pictures or he directly appropriates photographs already made. In Dementia 8 (2004) Ruffo uses a portrait - by Eligio Paoni, a professional photographer – of a ninety-one year-old woman. Her image is printed on a acetate paper and superimposed over a photographed drawing of a pllen grain. The pollen represents the symbol of new life. In this work life and death are layered one the top of the other. The particular structure of the pollen and the portrait of the woman are not important in the specific; they generically represent death and birth. The way Ruffo perceives time is linked with the concept that time is a continuous movement. The artist is interest in the transition moment between past and future – a moment that when present has already passed. Ruffo tries to capture something that cannot be grasped: the moment between the end of an instant and beginning of the next one. Title: Kumbmhela before Dimension (cm): 140x140 Technique: Lambda on Translucent paper Year: 2002  Title: Gondwana Dimensioni (cm): 240x120 Technique: Graphite chalk on cartouche + lambda print Year: 2004  Title: Migrazioni Dimension (cm): 186x265 Technique: Graphite and pigment on cavas Year: 2003  Title: Dementia8 Dimension (cm): n.d. Technique: Chalk and pigment on printed canvas Year: 2004  | |
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