Antonio De Pascale
°1953
Antonio De Pascale’s story could be told by his painting media. The artist began be using shoebox lids, so that the finished piece seemed already framed. He went on to use cake bases and finally packing cases. In 1995 he began a series featuring packing of well-known commer- cial products hand-painted with acrylics. Made by hand using craft techniques, the packaging no longer contains anything, but becomes the site of strange occurrences, for “parasitic tales that lurk in the symbolic/persuasive appa- ratus of the product”. By enlarging the object De Pascale ends up creating “human-scale” boxes, where the products are subjected to alarming mutations, as in the case of Brooklyn Bridge, made of Perfetti chewing gum, which irreparably explodes. In the recent Take away , 2001, De Pascale sketched images stolen from television program schedules onto sheets of paper, which he then die-cut and transformed into shopping bags.
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