The reading room
Federico Cortese
The reading room
35 × 28 cm · about ⅕ the width of a 3-seat sofa
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Art Analysis
From the artist, Federico Cortese
Oil on thick paper, 2021. Original sold. In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For this reason the rooms have a view towards the outside and the concrete world. Only by painting them, I realized that those windows are not an opening, the external landscape does not count at all, and the room is a refuge. The reader is somehow protected from the outside world as in a shelter, and his reality is only inside the book.
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