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art installation by artist esmeralda kosmatopoulos about touch and caressing with artworks sculptures of hands painted on wood and gold leaf pedestal inspired by byzantine Icones and paintings from Italian trecento paintings of noli me tangere

Tocatti da

2020

wood, oil paint

installation view


About

 

“Toccati da” revisits the religious scene of the Resurrection in the light of our contemporary perception of the body and human touch. In this scene known as “noli me tangere”, the Christ appears to Mary Magdalene but forbids her to touch him.


The artist appropriated six iconographic representations of the biblical scene made by Italians painters of the Trecento to focus on the hands of the two characters. Keeping the gesture identical to what it was on the paintings, she shifted their position to bring them together to touch in these three-dimensional sculptures.


Exhibition

 

2021   TRECCIENTO | CURATORS: AZAD ASIFOVICH, ADRIENNE ROGER | GALERIE ITALIENNE | PARIS, FRANCE

art installation by artist esmeralda kosmatopoulos about touch and caressing with artworks sculptures of hands painted on wood and gold leaf pedestal inspired by byzantine Icones and paintings from Italian trecento paintings of noli me tangere

installation view

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