"zeitgeist"

The image is part of the series of paintings titled "Zeitgeist".
The search of the elusive spirit of the time begins on the web where I go on the hunt for photos that tell of a place and the people who live and wander in my lego together diverse individuals have in common one thing: to live in the present time. The images drawn on the canvas are painted with brushes and with the spray and is the color, as well as hazing, to focus on some details, to create volumes, to determine a vacuum through the narrative technique of tonal gaps. The ZEITGEIST so the German philosophers in the late eighteenth century called it the "genius seculi"-appalesa especially in the tackle, in the dualism between tradition and modernity. at a time, like ours, that erases local identities, in advance of cultural osmosis continuous and unstoppable. A float made ​​with color variations from that record different temperatures. Black and white, for girls, all in a row with their open umbrellas, walking on the ruins of the theater of an unspecified conflict. Red, however, for the parade of the Korean Grid Girls, beautiful girls would miss that cheer the riders with their smiles International. The series of paintings from the body of a wandering geography that puts side by side with the Brazilian favelas Saudi refineries, the minarets of Cairo besieged by a jungle of parables to the shape of a veiled woman who never meet the orthodox jew talking to a Palestinian protester.