'Photosynthesis'
Mixedmedia. Canvas
115 X 85 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi.
A diachronic composition that intertwins the statue of winged victory of the Parco della Rimembranza in Turin, with natural elements such as ancient Egyptian typical lotuses and random natural elements.
"A diachronic composition that intertwines the statue of the winged victory of the Parco della Rimembranza in Torino hills with natural patterns developed by the artist. Photosynthesis (a word that includes also the ancient greek philosophical term 'Ph.y.sis') refers to the enigmatic natural process by which plants transform sunlight into nourishment, that, the artist asserts, reflect the reality of what human beings do, without being aware: "however majestic, everything artificial returns to be covered by Nature, being Nature the real axiom for each theorem that man thinks to have developed throughout Plato's legacy."
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'Interludio'
Mixedmedia on canvas
92 X 82 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi.
- Full series of writings on www.albertoballocca.medium.com
- Painting shipped in tube or streched. Frame included. Drafts included.
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'Ullikummi'
Oil, paper, sprays and pastels on canvas.
59 X 70 X 1.9 inch
In Statu Nascendi, pt.4 - English version for Medium Blog official account. Extract:
"...An impersonal stratum: meanings are compensated within Socratic interludes // Now, everything is v.ritual // Clock is motion //
After darkness, Hesiod sunk into Earth and destinations became reachable as wind // ..."
Full version on www.albertoballocca.medium.com
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'Third Door'
Oil and sprays on wood
80 X 60 X 4 cm
'The Book of Doors appears towards the end of the 18th dynasty and is normally inscribed in the burial chamber, or in the first colonnaded chamber, of many tombs. From the 20th dynasty to the 26th dynasty, the book is also depicted, albeit partially, on wooden sarcophagi.
The name of the composition refers to the 12 doors of the night, or the passage from one hour to another. The most complete versions are found in the tomb of Sethy I and Ramesses VI, describe within the third one. The Book of Doors is reported in several tombs in the Valley of the Kings (reported in chronological order of reign of the "Holders".
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'Mirror - Zero Point Energy'
Mixedmedia.
80 X 60 X 4 cm
In Statu Nascendi.
"Symbol of circle identifies circles, building verb 'to circle' before the graphic sign of the vowel o (ita tr. 'Cerchi.o') which is - again - a circle.
While speaking, meanings exudes throughout words: graphic aspect of letters is the only element that can make the difference in the criticism of the meanings deducible between various words; beyond any speculation, truth is never within but between. As a middle way, each circle ends within each other circle."
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'Split'
Mixedmedia on canvas
80 X 60 X 4 cm
Painting inspired by the ancient Roman - Egyptian sincretic cult of Serapis.
"The cult of Serapis was introduced in Egypt by Ptolemy I Lagis, first ruler of the new Macedonian dynasty, in an attempt to find a compromise cult that was acceptable to the various souls of the multi-ethnic city of Alexandria, capital of the kingdom."
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'Holograph'
Mixedmedia. Canvas
89 X 72 X 4 cm
- On hold at the air bnb luxury suite sponsored by turism agency Armonia.pm. Artwork for sale
"Holograph discloses synergy between Turin and the ruins of past cultures. In this pictorial work, Egypt and the Roman Empire merge. Starting from the central side of the composition, a pencil drawing manually collaged, you can observe a modified architecture of the ancient "Porta Principalis Sinistra" which allowed access from the north to the "Iulia Augusta Taurinorum" (Roman civitas now known as Turin). The pharaonic subject, performed with acrylics and dyes alludes to an element of victory/symbolic containment of the ancient atmosphere over the modern one, a concept that is metaphorized with 'Braking Symbols' term."
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'X-Cape'
Oil, acrylics and sprays on canvas. SIgned on the front.
45 X 65 X 4 cm
- Private collection
'X-Cape' is currently on view in the duo exhibition Nature & Love' curated by Master Ruha Gallery. N. 18, Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong - Beijing, Qingdao, China.
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'Zen-Sekhmet'
Oil, sprays on canvas
37 X 31 X 1.5 inch
'Zen-Sekhmet' is currently on view in the duo exhibition Nature & Love' curated by Master Ruha Gallery. N. 18, Rudong Road, district of Shinan, Qingdao city, Shandong - Beijing, Qingdao, China.
"Statuary subject is represented here in an austere position, and my hint was to generate a clear contrast with the nuanced background that emulate the hot air. When the hot wind of the desert blew, the Egyptians believed that it was precisely the breath of the fearsome Sekhmet, “the mighty one”, capable of repelling enemies; therefore, the goddess was adopted by several pharaohs as the patroness of the military and a symbol of their own power."
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'Atma Victu'
Enamels, drawing collage, sprays and oil on panel
55 X 45 X 4 cm
"Atma Victu is a Sanskrit term of masculine gender, which indicates the "essence" or the "vital breath". This painting is inspired by Junghian theory and totemic sculpture entitled Atma Victu. This painting is included in the compendium 'In Statu Nascendi"
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'The Scribe'
Clay, iron, marble and sprays.
36 X 32 X 12 cm
"Ancient Egyptian scribes were responsible for the hieroglyphic transcriptions on behalf of the pharaoh and the ruling royal courts.
In addition to the fundamental role of transcribing sacred texts, were sometimes also considered as real priests, and they had to shave their bodies daily to maintain a level of hygiene necessary for the liturgical ritual in the temple."
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'Aku-Aku'
Mixedmedia. 5 volt led.
44 X 32 X 8 cm
- Private collection
"Aku Aku is a wooden voodoo mask inside which resides the spirit of an ancient sorcerer which makes him alive and able to move, speak and continue to protect Earth from evil as he did when he was alive.
Aku Aku teams up with Crash and Coco to fight against Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka. To help the two Aku Aku can divide his soul into various parts and spread them across the world, locking them in boxes with his effigy printed on them."
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'Fire - L'Etica del Fuoco'
Clay, Wood, Sprays, Concrete, Acrylics & Sprays
13.7 X 5.9 X 4 inch
Sculpture featured in the conversation 'Like the Death of a Star'. Alberto Ballocca talks with Monique Michel, writer and curator (Karen gallery, contemporary art space - Australia)
"Fire is ethical and provides transformation. L'etica del Fuoco is a semi-installation sculpture, made with clay, wood, plaster, iron and concrete. This work identifies the idealization of a natural entity, and is partly inspired by the work and envirnomental aim of African master El Anatsui."
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'Petra Genetrix'
Clay, ventilated car-brake, eriobotrya japonico branches, maple bark, acrylics and sprays.
39 X 31 X 15 inch
"Art is the mirror of the impersonal stratum of human Psyche, the ‘Petra Genetrix’ of my-self. This installation combines different elements into a single composition and is partly inspired by the 'mysteries of Mithras' protector of the initiate. Based on the numerous depictions found in the Mithraeum, It was born from a rock identified with term 'Petra Genetrix'. Read more details about my current research and compendium 'In Statu Nascendi' on my official Medium account."
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'Frequency'
Graphite drawing, sprays and paper on wood
33 X 24 X 4 cm
- Private collection.
"Small format work on paper made with the superimposition of different layers and mediums. Frequency features the ancient Egyptian deity 'Ptah', protector of artisans and the concept of frequencies, as the ones that electronical devices have upon reality perception and nature."
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'Veins'
Graphite, charcoal, markers, paper, recycled paper
48 X 33 X 2 cm
- Private collection.
"In ancient Greek and Roman cultures, the vase was also an important liturgical element, called 'rhyton'. Rhytòn is a perforated container from which the liquids poured into it could escape to be drunk in ceremonies such as libation. Rhytà were very common in ancient Persia, where they were called takūk. After the Greek victory over the Persians, in 479 BC. many luxury goods including numerous rhytà were brought to Athens as booty and were immediately imitated by greek artists. The word is thought to come from the Greek rhein, "to flow", which, in turn, derives from the Indo-European *sreu-, "flow".
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'Wild Protector Mehen'
Mixedmedia.
50 X 70 X 4 cm
-Private collection
"The earliest known references to Mehen occur in the Coffin Texts. Mehen is a protective deity who is depicted as a snake which coils around the sun god Ra during his journey through the night, for instance in the Amduat. In the German-Egyptian dictionary by R. Hannig,[4] it is said that the Mehen (mḥn) or the Mehenet (mḥnt) snake is equivalent to the Ouroboros. With its coils, snake Mehen, protected the Sun by wrapping him, like a shield, during his nocturnal journey in the Duat (underworld) or saved him from the evil snake Apopi who. Both deities, in the ancient Egyptian pantheon represented the eternal struggle between good and evil."
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'Driving the Woodship'
Graphite, pigments, parchment paper, collages, digital render. Archival paper. 305 gr
48 X 33 X 4 cm
Artwork on view with The Holy Art Gallery, Paris in the show 'Art on Loop' - 13.15/09 - 2024
'In Statu Nascendi'. 2024 - This work comes with the full set of drafts and drawings used for the final processing procedure. Unique edition.
"Parlare d'amore è parlare d'istanti. Memory of the past intertwins with the perpetual one. Follow my Time path as the periphery of infinity, a block of instants that conducts to the wood ship."
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'Vantage Isle'
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering
48 X 33 X 1.5 cm
This artwork presents two different titles based on different specific reasons. Ambien.th or Vantage Isle is a phygital result. Subject at the center of the composition is the statue pharaoh Ramses II held at the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
Photography, pencil drawings scans and digital scan, digital collage, ink-jet printing on Hahnemuhle paper. Shipped in tube or frame. Signed on the front. Unique edition.
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'Two Sparks'
Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 305 gms archival cotton paper - Graphite drawing, Photography, digital rendering , digital collage.
33 X 48 X 3 cm
- Private collection - 1/1
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
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'Physis'
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
40 X 35 X 4 cm
- Private collection - 3/5
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
40 x 32 graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach.
"Physis is a Greek translation for word Nature. No political nor religious beliefs can be attached to this archetypical perception of Nature. Natural and wild background is a mirror for all those spiritual elements that inhabit me, and appear to be meaningless or unknown to my logic initially, but manifesting them as expanded and intertwined within vegetal patterns after."
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'Awake Ananke'
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering
40 X 32 X 4 cm
- Private collection - 1/1 - Sold out
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
40 x 32 graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach.
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'Orama'
Graphite drawing, Photography, Digital Collages, Manual Collages and Digital render
30 X 42 X 4 cm
- Private collection - 3/5
Graphite drawings and photographs scans, digital collage and rendering. Ink jet printing on archival paper, 305 gr
40 x 32 graphite drawing used for the final compositional approach.
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'Kàtagma'
Mixedmedia. Paper
36 X 24 X 4 cm
- Kàtagma is the paper version of the work by Alberto Ballocca that entered the private collection of Museo Mmmac in Paestum.
"Kàtagma, in Greek language, means 'fracture' and this work identifyies a clear symbol of opening as well as an inspiration source of some personal meditation about the ancient so called process of antithesis between 'Physis' and 'nomos'.
This philosophical concept is expressed through the representation of the symbolic elements defines the composition of Kàtagma.
With the 'Sophistry' movement (2nd half of the 5th century) term Physis (Greek translation of Nature) takes on a political value, giving rise to what is nowadays conventionally defined as the antithesis between nature and political structures.
Nomos, considered as the primitive 'positive law of the polis', thus defines the identity of a population through the structural compendium of habits and customs, becoming distant and often detached from the urban context, in terms of natural schemes sublimation into social structures.
Katagma is the fracture, that exists takes on and between natural entities (physis) and the so-called western civil laws. (nomos)."
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'A Ray of Light'
Organic chlorophyll, Dyes, House Paint, Acrylics and Collages on canvas - Signed by both artists on the back.
28.3 X 24.4 X 1.6 inch
In collaboration with the italian based photographer Paolo Pettigiani. Organic chlorophyll applied on a mixedmedia canvas & digital infrared photography / The concept behind this painting combines the conceptual element of luminous decomposition (rainbow) by means of a prism (diamond) and the Egyptian mythology (central pharaoh) with a singular usage of the Infrared photographic technique (organic chlorophyll) - Physical painting will be provided to the first collector after the acquisition of the digital token. The digital token will be burned if the painting will be purchased without nft.
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'La Tredicesima Fatica'
Mixedmedia
95 X 89 X 4 cm
- Painting exhibited in Van Der Plas Gallery, New York.
"The twelve trials (in Greek dodekathlos) of Heracles, later Hercules in Roman mythology, are a series of episodes of Greek mythology, later reunited in a single story, which concern the exploits carried out by the hero Heracles to atone for the fact of having made himself guilty of the death of his family. Artwork inspired by the third effort of the ancient Greek hero."
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'Space Cadet'
Mixedmedia. Wood.
80 X 60 X 4 cm
- Private collection
"Space Cadet" as the first time being an artist. Dive through this universe to come up as a cadet within this city morgue. Art as a guidance, without guilds, space-time float out of the studio. Art is a universal aegis."
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'Deus Ex Machina'
Mixedmedia. Canvas.
100 X 70 X 3 cm
- Private collection
"Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase borrowed from the Greek "Mechanè", in ancient Greek: ("apò mēchanḗs theós") which literally means "deity (coming down) from the machine. Originally, it indicates a character from Greek tragedy, or a divinity who appears on the scene to give a resolution to a plot that is now unsolvable according to the classic principles of cause and effect."
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'Efesto'
Mixedmedia.
70 X 50 X 4 cm
Hephaestus in Greek mythology is the god of fire, forges, engineering, sculpture and metallurgy. He was worshiped in all the cities of ancient Greece where craft activities were found, especially in Athens (where the temple of the same name was located). In the Iliad poem, Homer tells how Hephaestus was rather ugly and of a fickle nature, but with great strength in his muscles of his arms and shoulders, and of having such skills as a craftsman that everything he made was of unrivaled perfection.
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'Hexis Filosofica'
Acrylics, drawing collages, sprays and oil pastels on wood
60 X 40 X 4 cm
- Private Collection
"Hexis is a characteristic, capacity or disposition that one 'possesses'; its etymology is the Greek word ekhein, the term used to indicate spiritual property."
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'Tyche, la figlia degli Istanti'
Acrylics, sprays and collages on wood board
60 X 40 X 4 cm
"Term τύχη has the root of τυγχάνω (= to happen) and this gives the term a connotation not only of randomness, but also of inevitability. Significant for understanding this concept is a passage from Sophocles' Ajax' where the theme of inevitability is strengthened by ἀναγκαίας, feminine singular genitive of ἀνάγκη (= necessity). In fact, the Tyche, together with the Moira, is an impersonal force, believed to be able to completely overwhelm lives of men."
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'The Pyramids Texts'
Mixedmedia
29.5 X 25.5 X 1.6 inch
- Private Collection
"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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'Capo Tribù Dogon'
Mixedmedia. Wood.
62 X 51 X 1.5 cm
- Private Collection
"Starting with French anthropologist Marcel Griaule, several authors have confirmed that traditional Dogon religion of Mali region, incorporates details about extrasolar astronomical bodies that could not have been detected by naked-eye observation such as the star Sirius B and C."
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'Fear is Ego / Pandora'
House paint, Pigmented Gold Foil, Silicones, Acrylics, Oil pastels, Tempera and markers
80 X 60 X 4 cm
- Private collection
This painting represents the study of various mediums (acrylics, enamels, silicones, gold foil and more) instinctively applied on the support. Study of the decomposition of form. So called *Ego is the form, what makes us rational beings, fear is included in the package. I broke that down too.
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'Cleopatra VII'
OIl, acrylics, oil pastels and sprays on wood panel.
75 X 50 X 4 cm
-Private collection
OIl, acrylics, oil pastels and sprays on wood panel.
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'Nefertiti'
Acrylics, oil pastels, spray, markers, collages, gold foil.
29.5 X 19.6 X 1.5 inch
- Private collection.
Rha-Nefertiti is inspired by the fascinating atmosphere behind the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, considered the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, she joined her husband in the great but ephemeral religious revolution that tried to impose the cult of the single god Aton, the solar disk. Together, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were responsible for the creation of a new henotheistic religion which caused, for twenty years, upheavals within the ancient Egyptian religion and some political unrest.
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'Amon'
Oil, acrylics, sprays and drawing collages on panel
70 X 50 X 4 cm
- Private Collection
Amon (Imn, pronounced Amana in the Egyptian language, in Italian also Ammone; literally the Mysterious or the Hidden is a divinity belonging to the religion of ancient Egypt. He was a god of utmost importance for almost all of Egyptian history. He is attested already during the Old Kingdom (ca. 2680 - 2180 BC) with his wife Amonet, as evidenced for example by an inscription in the pyramid of Pepi II.
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'Eseis'
Acrylics, oil and sprays on panel
70 X 50 X 4 cm
- Private Collection
'Eseis' is a tribute to the feminine divine side of human creativity. This painting has been selected as cover-image for the book 'Better the original rather than digital' for sale via Lulu.com. Eseis is a greek noun modified according to give sense to the word eseis as 'to her' and not 'her', to enhance the sense of giving to and dancing with instead of taking from and controlling human creativity.
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'Codice Uomo'
Acrylics, oil, drawing collages and oil pastels on canvas
50 X 35 X 4 cm
- Private collection.
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'Taurocatapsia'
Mixedmedia
55 X 48 X 4 cm
"Taurocatapsia is inspired by the composition and story of the Cretan (Minoic) ritual fresco of "Taurocatapsia" preserved in the archaeological museum of Heraklion. This artwork presents different materials and effects on the surface. The sporting ritual of Taurocatapsia is currently considered as the progenitor of modern traditional "Corrida", but without the aspects of man' suppression of the wild animal despite being a ritual older than 3000 years in respect of the modern tradition"
Read my article 'Ancient ritual of Taurocatapsia' for more informations about this artwork story
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