Awareness - Dario Puggioni

Dario Puggioni is an Italian artist whose work focuses on death and decay, as well as the human experience from inside the human body. He attained his artistic training in Rome and is now living and working in Berlin. Puggioni's paintings and work includes many different mediums such as enamel, ink, acetic acid, and oil on aluminum and copper; in using these different elements, Puggioni is able to create the experience of actual human decay on a painting. The reactive materials peel and come apart as a part of the piece, making it even more interesting and morbid. Additionally, much of his work is made on separate pieces of paper and then combined on a canvas, giving Puggioni the ability to really stretch and distort the images.

Anatomical Shell XI

29x20 cm

Oil on acetate applied on oxidize copper

What I really love about Puggioni's work is how unique and effective the process is. All of his work looks like real decay and death, and I think that using the reactive materials is a very interesting way to go about creating the image rather than just painting. I would love to try some of these materials in seeing how I could incorporate them into my own work. Additionally, I really enjoy his morbid and realistic style, and I would like to pursue that more when creating my own pieces.

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60x100 cm

Oil on aluminum