Relying on high-contrast studio shading, manual collage textures, and minimalist staging to map out an emotional narrative, the artwork masterfully tracks a complex rhythm of human rules, social censorship, and modern anxiety. The vertical orientation anchors a powerful flat perspective across the classical photographic headshot, using raw monochromatic values and a bold, textured orange cross-tape application to turn an anonymous face into an elegant topographic scenery of pure spatial balance and quiet luxury.
Although figurative photography remains Arnone's primary form of expression, the artist begins to see certain limitations in this medium when it comes to adequately depicting his altered and often dreamlike vision of reality. In this series, photography is combined with various techniques (pastel, acrylic, pencil, etc.) to represent the duality of the objective/subjective, the real and the imaginary.
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Tape Conceptual Art Portrait - 2153, 2022. From ONE, by Salvatore Arnone
2153, 2022
From the ONE series
Photography and tape on Hahnemuhle paper
Dimensions: 35.4 H x 27.5 W in.
Printed area: 32.2 H x 24.4 W in.Unique
Unframed
Production time is 2 to 3 weeks.
Italian artist Salvatore Arnone lives and works in Paris since 2014. After a debut of career as an engineer, he moved into jewelry design and worked for different brands around the world for almost 10 years. Despite this immersion in the creative field, at some point he felt the need to dedicate himself solely to photography and focus on his own vision. In 2010 he got published for the first time on Vanity Fair Italia and over the years his work has been displayed on several magazines and exhibitions all over the world. From the age of 25, he began to experience progressive hearing loss due to genetic cellular degeneration that forced him to use hearing aids. The lack of one sense deeply affected his perception of the world around him and his social relationships pushing him to a slow but constant process of self isolation that is well visible in all his production.
