{"product_id":"michele-tocca-repoussoir","title":"Michele Tocca. Repoussoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichele Tocca\u003c\/strong\u003e (Subiaco, Rome, 1983), painter, trained in Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom. His painting starts from observation and live performance as a rethinking of the distances between process and metaphor, naturalism and its paradoxes, time and history. Working live, indoors and outdoors, the artist \u003cstrong\u003eseeks a mutual actuality between painting in its making and the phenomena, the circumstances of the physical world\u003c\/strong\u003e. An identification whereby painting becomes from time to time rain, stain, wall, mud, jacket in a continuous overlap between sensory immediacy and the spontaneous reoccurrence of aesthetic problems, visual archetypes and critical reflections on unusual territories of history in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe term \u003cem\u003erepoussoir\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the history of landscape painting. It indicates \u003cstrong\u003ean element placed in the foreground for the purpose of constituting an obstacle\u003c\/strong\u003e, a frame, a backdrop to open vision. It is an obstacle \u003cstrong\u003ethat raises the gaze in depth, determines its trajectory toward the visual focus of the painting.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tocca's entire painting can be read through the visual mechanism of the repoussoir: \u003cstrong\u003eeverything that is seemingly marginal\u003c\/strong\u003e, that is apparently only frame, disturbance, distraction, filter, everything that is evanescent, everything that stands out from what we expect, by habit, to find at the center of attention, \u003cstrong\u003eacquires in his works full prominence and new meaning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMichele Tocca. Repoussoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a relevant core of the artist's recent works such as the Aurelian Walls series, Vapors, Mud and his Painter's Rain Jackets. \u003cstrong\u003eIt contains a critical essay by Elena Volpato and some texts that Michele Tocca has dedicated to some landscape painters of the Italian 19th century, \u003c\/strong\u003esuch as Antonio Fontanesi and Giovanni Battista De Gubernatis.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book is published as part of the winning project of PAC2021 - Plan for Contemporary Art, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corraini-shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53629464281418,"sku":"9791254930502","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/files\/tocca_corraini_repoussoir_cover.jpg?v=1768327427","url":"https:\/\/corraini.com\/en\/products\/michele-tocca-repoussoir","provider":"corraini-shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}