Venus

Description

Stylised Venus’s shape designed and painted to convey a cutout effect, inspired by Matisse’s gouaches découpées. Sensuality, here to center stage, questions us ironically on the place it occupies to define the contemporary women’s identity and still nowadays on its exploitation in consumer society. A reinterpretation of the collage as fragments of well-known pieces of art linked to mass tourism and fashion: the Birth of Venus by Botticelli, the Blue Nudes by Matisse are melted together to create a statuesque eroticism inspired by Helmut Newton. Ri.Chi. turns her attention to the language of internet, to the careless use of fragments of culture and information, available at easy hand: does internet really makes us shallow and superficial, as claimed by Nicholas Carr?