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Marco Battaglini

With explosive juxtapositions, artist Marco Battaglini collides the principles of idealistic beauty, as epitomized in Renaissance painting, with the modern anarchic anti-consumerist ideology of graffiti, that espouses the transformative power of defacement. Enormous in scale, the details of the pastiche artworks purposefully expose the divide between these two stylistic trends to emphasize the superficiality of our modern culture and the collapse of the concept of art and culture as a linear progression. 

Another Brick in the Wall, 39.4 H x 28.7 W x 2.4 in

Wanna go for a ride?, 37.4 H x 63 W x 2.4 in

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination, 39.4 H x 29.9 W x 2.4 in

Tanta potentia formae est, 39.4 H x 24.8 W x 2.4 in

Smoking is harmful to health, 51.2 H x 98.4 W x 2.4 in

Gentlemen prefer blondes, 56.3 H x 41.3 W x 2 in

Make love not war, 41.7 H x 57.5 W x 2.4 in

Deseos reprimidos, 74.8 H x 40.2 W x 2.4 in

Immortality, 41.7 H x 51.2 W x 2.4 in

Inclinata resurgit, 40.2 H x 58.3 W x 2.4 in, images posted with permission of the artist. 

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