Wallpaper Portraits

CarloGalfione_1

CarloGalfione_2

Using wallpaper and furniture fabrics as motifs to overlay on faces. These oil paintings are  inspired by advertising and fashion magazines. Art by Carlo Galfione.

Notes about the artist (from bio via Galleria Dieffe; translation to English):

Born in Pinerolo (Turin) in 1969, lives and works in Turin. He was trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin.

Fascinated by the stereotypes of the fashion system, the rituals, expectations and desires that surround this world, the artist reflects the psychological aspects that this entails, the need that causes us to seek “the habitat aesthetic” that best represents us, in a growing circuit in which each individual is likely to be the same group membership, as the same are the elements that form a family group. His work represents a sampling of possible aesthetic approvals.(…)

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