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The just opened Macro Future in Rome exhibits till the end of October “X-ray Guernica”. The artwork by Ron English is hosted at the entry of the Macro on the refrigerator wall of the ex-slaughterhouse: it represent the real Picasso’s Guernica in x-ray view.
The commonly called “wallpaint” is represented by a composition of white on black skeletal figures, the Guernica’s ones, recognizable thanks to a series of paint sails around them which bring they back to the original composition. This artwork born in a allegoric form in the XX century, has been reread by Ron English with a contemporary experience consciousness that drives the new artwork to reach the infinity of the allegory, exactly what the post-contemporary artworks reach.
As a matter of fact, if the “X-ray Guernica” is an homage to the Piccasso’s artwork and to Guernica’s martyrs, in the same time it shows the need to reread the so-called “Work of Art”, breaking it down and baring it. In the same way he Ron felt the need to reset the Guernica on a new support, near our contemporary experience.
Ron himself talking about his artwork stated that he couldn’t never forget how much companies and their advertising had stolen to humanity, invading all the urban spaces with promotional banners and graphics. His art feels the need to give back to the world his stolen beauty using the same weapons used for the theft. Ron seem to stream in that way: “If panoramas and views had to be stolen by someone or something, art has to do that”.
The “X-ray Guernica” allegory falls in a never ending meaning sequence: this is the real meaning of an artwork x-ray sifting.
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