Private Story
GOLDEN SEXY VEGGIE FRUITS
Photographs by Monica Silva
" The secret to living longer is: eat half as much, walk twice as much, laugh three times as much and love without measure. "
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
"Banana Golden Pop Art," a playful homage to the aesthetics of Pop Art and the iconic image of Andy Warhol, and photographs from the unpublished project "Sexy Pop Fruit Series," where "the iconographic references are a mere cue for a desecration practised paradoxically by painting the fruits with gold, with overbearing allusion to the sexual metaphor that has belonged to gender painting since ancient times. Again, if photography often wearily insists on a pleonastic exercise in hyperrealism that is inherent to the medium, Monica practices a kind of hyper-antinaturalism. Her fruits are mostly thoughts, provocations, shameless icons."
Andrea Dusio
Art curator
Monica Silva - Sacro & Profano
M.A.C - September 17, 2019 - Milan, Italy
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