Alberto Ballocca
Mixed Media Artist
Italian artist. Torino.
Specialized in diachronic approaches on ancient cultures & natural aesthetics.
"Ballocca's workspace is a crucible of creativity where he mixes layers of acrylics, oil, pastels, pigments and charcoal drawings. His sculptural works are just as diverse, combining materials like ferrous waste, electronic components, wood, clay, marble, and more unconventional elements. His current projects are developing on parallel within his career exploits expanding from collaborative experiences plus multiple works in private collections around the world."
'Two Sparks'
Mixedmedia - Fine Art Print
19.8 X 13.3 X 1.5 inch
Artwork part of the project 'Island of Pun', on display at Colonna Contemporary Gallery.
Two reigns as Two Sparks The Sema-tauy (or sma-taui, or sema knot) an ancient Egyptian symbol composed of the intertwining of two plants linked to a sign representing the trachea and arteries. Lotus flower (typical of Upper Egypt) and the Papyrus (typical of Lower Egypt). In royal statuary was placed on one of the sides of the cubic throne of the sovereign and sometimes it was also imprinted on an amulet placed on the body of the deceased. The shape of this symbol is mixed within natural elements and the statuary subject.
- This artwork is printed on Hahnemuhle paper, results of the union of different mediums and drafts used for the final compositional process. - - Two Sparks comes with all the support material.
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'Orama'
Mixedmedia - Fine Art Print
40 X 30 X 1.5 cm
Orama is a greek translation of word ‘vision’ and, and as between two lovers, this vision of Nature becomes a mirror for all those spiritual elements that inhabit my gestures and impulses.
Slow drawing and cutting processes first and a quick compositional decisions after scanning draft and sketches, a statuary icon and vegetal patterns, a mental object of investigation about the relation that ancient people had within natural environments, especially through art and natural depictions within an hidden aesthetics sublimation.
Human beings have been and are able to develop new structures starting from a basic point of elements unification or problem-solving, but awareness still resides within another element of research because of our condition.
Reflected onto an atavistic and perpetual self-reflection as a doppler effect, the hidden secret require our attention onto balancing our impulses, and so on I tried to do with the composition of this work.
Trying to define my creative process always for a better manifestation and committment, I hope our sensibility onto our natural background will achieve more concreteness.
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'Syntax Validator'
Acrylics, enamels, pigments, oil pastels, wall paint, charcoal drawing, collages on wood
100 X 70 X 4 cm
Inspired by the historical character Zenone of Elea (Ancient Greek: 489 BC – 431 BC) was a pre-Socratic Ancient Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides.
Aristotle defines him as the inventor of dialectics. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell defined as 'immeasurably subtle and profound.'
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'L'Etica del Fuoco'
Clay, Wood, Sprays, Concrete, Acrylics & Sprays
13.7 X 5.9 X 4 inch
This work identifies a materical idealization of fire. 'L'Etica del Fuoco' is also partly inspired by the work and envirnomental aim (philosophy and practice) of African master Emanuel Anatsui.
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'Starrow'
Mixedmedia
30 X 45 X 3 cm
Work on paper performed with different media on dusty paper. Starrow is inspired by the mechanism of Antikythera, an astronomical device dated 100 b.C, while a study published in 2022 believes that the initial calibration is dated 23 December 178 BC. It is believed to be the oldest known mechanical calculator. It was originally a sophisticated planetarium, moved by toothed wheels, which was used to calculate the rising of the sun, the phases of the moon, the movements of the five planets known at the time, the equinoxes, the months, the days of the week and - according to a published study on Nature - the dates of the Olympic games. It was found in the wreck of Antikythera, among the remains of a shipwreck that has been discovered in the second quarter of the 1st century b.C. near the Greek island of the same name.
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'Kàtagma'
Mixedmedia
9.44 X 13.7 X 4 inch
Part of the private collection of Museo Materiali Minimi d'Arte Contemporanea (MMMAC) of Paestum - Capaccio (SA).
'Kàtagma, in Greek language means 'fracture'; this work identifyies a clear symbol of opening as well as an inspiration source of some personal meditations about the ancient philosophical process of antithesis 'fysi-nomos'.'
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'Shu'
Acrylics, Oil pastels, Pigments and Charcoal on Dust Paper.
42 X 32 X 1 cm
'Shu (also Chu, Sciu or Schu) was a primordial deity, personification of air, the atmosphere and the wind, and a member of the great Ennead of Heliopolis. His name means "He, Who Raises" and derives from his main mythological function: the division of his son Geb, Earth, from his daughter Nut, the Sky - fundamental moment of the creation of the world; based on different inspcriptions interpretations and translations, his name means Dry (reference to the wind that dries) or Empty. Shu symbolized air, also understood as a breath of life and a cooling breeze; it was therefore associated with a pacifying influence. By virtue of this, and his connection with Maat (embodiment of truth, justice, order), Shu was commonly depicted with an ostrich feather on his head, which was also the hieroglyph of his name , or with a headdress of four feathers, symbolizing the four pillars that he had placed to support the sky.'
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'Geb'
Acrylics, Oil and Dyes on Canvas
33.7 X 23.6 X 1.6 inch
'Geb was the god of Earth in the ancient Egyptian myth of creation, in contrast to most other mythologies, he was a male personification. As time passed, his name became increasingly associated with 'Valley', the habitable land of Egypt, and therefore with vegetation and fertility as well as dominion over animals. In association with vegetal elements and natural entities he is often depicted with plants and fruits on his body and with green or black skin, typical color of the fertile land of river Nile.'
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'The Pyramids Texts'
Mixedmedia
29.5 X 25.5 X 1.6 inch
- Private Collection in Switzerland
"The Pyramid Texts" are the oldest Egyptian funerary hieroglyphic texts with religious meanings, dating back to the end of the Old Kingdom: the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in ancient hieroglyphics pictograms, were carved on the underground walls and sarcophagi of the Saqqara pyramids from the end of the fifth dynasty and throughout the sixth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, until the eighth dynasty of the early Intermediate period. These formulas were intended to ensure the protection of pharaoh's remains, reinfuse the spirit into his mummy and ensure his ascension among the gods and reunification with the sun-god Ra (a central idea in the spirituality of the ancient kingdom)."
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'Mitoscopio - m.4'
Acrylics, Oil and Dyes on Wood panel
34 X 23 X 1.5 inch
"Carbon-14, is affected by solar cosmic rays, rapidly oxidizes becoming carbon dioxide and entering the atmospheric carbon cycle. Plants and animals absorb it with carbon dioxide, and when they die, they stop exchanging it with the biosphere and carbon decays within times determined by the radioactive decay law, thus, a historical chronology and timeline datation of the artifact, is obtained through scientific observation."
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'Jinzo'
Mixedmedia
12.9 X 4.75 X 3.14 inch
Jinzo’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘made by humans’. The iron grid applied on the head identifies the protection of the intellect and shows different ancient architectural elements. The lit eye represents the abstractive power related to the right hand usage during the creative process.
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Represented by
Colonna Contemporary Gallery
4 Louella Ct - Wayne, PA 19987 - USA
19987
Wayne - Philadelphia, United States
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