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(Erice, 1973)
Show me, 2022
Photographic work in digital printing on hypergloss, cm. 50x40
Example 7 of 20
Size with frame, cm. 56 x 46 x 4 approx.
“Show me” is a limited edition digitally printed photographic work on hypergloss.
The photograph is sold with a certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered by the artist. The work is presented framed, in a white wooden coffered frame. The frame shown in the photos above has been added to the photographic work by the seller, therefore, it is supplied at no additional cost so that it is ready to display as soon as it arrives, it is included as a courtesy and is not considered an integral part of the package. work itself.
The package is shipped carefully packed in cardboard/polystyrene/bubble wrap and tracked shipping from Sicily.
Loredana Meo was born in Erice in 1973. She lives and works in Marsala. After studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, she began an artistic journey through figurative painting, inspired by the glorious past of Italian art, above all by the great Caravaggio and naturalistic mastery, to the point of being defined as a "contemporary Caravaggist ”.
Over time, maturing new expressive needs, the artist discovers "Photography", conceiving a new and evolutionary language, based on the idea of "Concept - image - communication", thus, the photographic work becomes his imaginary vision, in which he unites his thought to the matrix of classical painting, while always maintaining the naturalistic style.
In the cycle of these works, the artist makes a careful introspective analysis of the inner ways of the soul, investigates the relationship between man and being, engaged in the singular search for the meaning of one's existence, stimulating self-exploration.
The man stuck in individualism ends up closing in on himself, manifesting his inadequacies. Following his conversion to faith, the artist understands the infinite value of the "Little I", because it is destined for eternal bliss.
The poetics built by Loredana Meo tells something that interacts and makes you think. His works represent a visual scene, formulated according to a naturalistic timbre, which, although "Nature morte", one perceives a profound allegorical and moral interpretation of a spiritual nature, a sensation that in some cases almost seems to smell the perfume or to enter that dimension, per mirarsi, a still life that invites us to contemplate, in which the plasticity of the figures is highlighted by the particular lighting that reveals the volumes of the objects that suddenly emerge from the dark, creating a surreal imagery thanks to vibrant passages of light and shadow.
Loredana Meo has collaborated on various projects with associations and institutions, from 2017 to 2019 she taught in the chair of painting at the Kandinsky Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in exhibitions in the area, adhering to the project "The Myths and the territory_ Sicily with a thousand cultures". His works are part of national and international private collections.
Exhibitions:
"Myths and the territory - The expression of beauty"
23 April - 5 May 2019, Marsala
Marsala, Palazzo Fici
"The Evolution of Caravaggism in Contemporary Art"
17 March -18 May 2018 – Marsala
Marsala, Church of San Pietro (Fondi Buildings of Worship)
"Myths and the territory - The Caravaggisti from the seventeenth century to today"
8 July - 1 October 2017, Mazara del Vallo
Mazara del Vallo, Monumental Complex of the Jesuit College
"Paint - Artfair"
17 March - 20 March 2016, Forlì
Publication:
Catalog publication of works from the Intermidiart collection and other editorial writings:
The Myths and the Territory in Sicily with a thousand cultures. Unpublished Quadreria general catalog of works from the collection of the cycle "Myths and the territory", Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, 2022.
"A rose is a rose, indeed, much more", catalog of the works of Loredana Meo, with essays by Giandomenico Semeraro, Franco Paliaga and Andrea Maggio, Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, 2022.
"Myths and the territory - The expression of beauty", catalog edited by Andrea Maggio, Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, 2019
"The evolution of Caravaggism in contemporary art, edited by Franco Paliaga and Andrea Maggio, Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, 2018 (cover work).
"Myths and the territory - The Caravaggisti from the seventeenth century to today", catalog edited by Franco Paliaga and Andrea Maggio, Mazara del Vallo, 2017 (cover work). 67569147
