Dario Cusani, Caesar Palace, 1996, Acrylic on Canvas, Framed

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Technique photo-painting the technique used was defined as photo-painting by the art critic silvia pegoraro of ravenna italy and was … Read more Technique photo-painting the technique used was defined as photo-painting by the art critic silvia pegoraro of ravenna italy and was an artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 1964 dario cusani had been working with photography and painting which had never been united. In 1994 i returned to naples, the city where i was born and had been missing for 10 years after moving to rome in 1984. I returned to see the miracle achieved by the g7 with the presidents of the most powerful countries led by bill clinton, us president. It was a wonderful visit to my city reborn in its ancient splendor! i took over 5,000 photos of the squares and monuments of naples with my nikon. I returned to rome and had all the photos printed and put them on various tables and assembled all the various pieces. I immediately realized that parts were missing which i completed with paint. A spontaneous gesture with which i had unconsciously achieved a great innovation: i had combined the reality of photography with the dream represented by painting. Silvia, my muse who knew me well, when i showed her the first work imperating male (r:0176) that i had done she said to me: "dario you have united the two worlds of your life: that of your childhood with the sensitivity of the dreamer with the concrete one that they gave you taught your parents with education, studies (degree in economic sciences) and work started at 15 years old in your family's copper industry. These formative years had distanced myself from those of childhood when i studied the piano and dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor. I also drew and painted with my imagination in search of the affections i was missing. In fact my parents were busy in the factory (copper production) rebuilding italy destroyed by the recently ended war. I then refined photo-painting which developed into digital processing having replaced the brush with the mouse to fill the gaps left by the photography and complete the reality which with painting became another fantastic reality. Places of memory cities this work is part of the "research" places of memory cities revisited by me in a fantastic way. In fact i use my exclusive photopainting technique with a photographic element to which i add painting (oil or acrylic) to create a new reality. Caesar palace (las vegas) in 1995 we took a flight from los angeles to go to the "legendary" las vegas with our wife and 3 children. The eldest (15 years old) entered the airport and saw some slot machines and, having some coins in his pocket, immediately began to play while waiting to go through document control. A policeman immediately approached him and stopped him, asking for his documents. I immediately realized the mistake and explained that we didn't know the rules. He was very strict, but kind and he explained everything to us and the "lesson" was useful to the whole family. That world of ephemeral entertainment seemed like "heaven on earth" to us! we stayed at the cesar palace and we were surprised that everything was in “ancient roman style” and everyone was walking around with their glass full of fantastic coins! here is the painting i created with photos taken in las vegas. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



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