Contemporary Art - Mixed media - I know that I don't know

Aditional Information

Period	Contemporary (1945-today)

Authentic work of the artist Wibaa.
He began his artistic career by attending a course at the MoMA in New York.
Published in various magazines, he exhibited in London, Berlin, Milan Design Week, Rome Art Week, Puerto Rico, Atlanta, Dubai
The works are exhibited in European and North American galleries and are part of private collections.

The work expresses the possibility of channeling the large amount of images and information produced by today's society along a multitude of ways of life.
The multitude of polychrome spots symbolize the enormous baggage of information coming from everywhere.
The multicolored lines are well-defined geometric paths that indicate a multiplicity of paths of life. They indicate all the cultural and experiential production of the human being.
The emerged part of the iceberg exists only because it is supported by the immersed part: the unconscious.
It is a work of denunciation, the author wants to underline the importance of building a conscience-unconscious relationship. This relationship is necessary for the development of a life path that contemplates the knowledge of not knowing of Socratic memory - I know that I don't know - an essential basis for the development of knowledge full of contents.

Artist Biography

His creative process always stems from the desire to share his thought, his idea. Before approaching the canvas, Wibaa makes a long inner journey necessary to define his point of view in order to reach the public. Then, he looks for colors, materials and style to transfer his emotions to the canvas and start a dialogue with contemporary society. Wibaa is characterized in that each series of works is totally different from the others. He is one of the few living artists who focuses on his creative thinking and not on execution. In an unusual way, He links the latter only to the need to establish, with as few elements as possible, a lively conversation with the community. The artist was born in Italy, Rome. He is self-taught and he approached painting by attending a course at MoMA in New York - In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting – He could learn about the materials, techniques, and approaches of seven New York School artists who made abstract paintings. The “New York School “including De Kooning, Newman, Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Rothko. Wibaa began to understand what a studio means and how ideas develop by looking closely at the paintings. Wibaa paints intuitively using a variety of tools such as brushes, spatulas, sponges, and even his hands. He prefers acrylic and oil colors, mixing them with various other liquids. He does not disdain enamels, sprays, sheaths and charcoals.

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