Valerio Ambiveri



The Painter's Demons


 

Juan Sánchez Cotán, Bodegón de caza, hortalizas y frutas, 1602
Museo del Prado, Madrid

 

Giostre Cotán

 

"Even in the dry and austere rigor, Juan Sánchez saw the subtle amusement that the hanging fruits gave, perhaps he imagined that an artist could carry out that amusement four hundred and fourteen years later, when time would have burst into the work".

 

Giostre Cotán
videoHD, color, sound, 5’40”, 2018