Paolo Canevari
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 Paolo Canevari facts

• He lives and works in New York City
• He is one of the Italian internationally recognized artist of his generation, known for using different kind of materials and media like animation, drawing, video, sculpture and installation
• Paolo Canevari presents highly recognizable or even commonplace symbols in order to comment on such concept as religion, the urban myths of happiness or the major principles behind creation and destruction
• Starting as a sculptor the artist treats the rest of his work also as a drive to turn the passive state of mind into an energetic, creative act
• His adoption of the medium of video is associated also with his desire to make images which are ephemeral yet visually striking
• His recent video works can be seen as a form of ephemeral sculpture which rejects the rhetoric about eternal monuments
• As he underlines in one of his statement: "I believe that the most important inspiration for an artist’s work is people’s way of thinking
• Spirituality, as part of the human condition, brings with it a presence, a meaning, a symbol, a soul
• I utilize icons in my work as a way of connecting with this fundamental truth
• A tire, a skull, or a bomb are recognizable images and part of our universal knowledge, just as much as a sacred image, or an image of a dog