Giuliano Grittini - Act of Love

The work draws on a pop aesthetic in its use of famous or mass-produced images and their pictorial reworking. Pop Art emerged in the United States in the second half of the 20th century as a result of artists' interest in and critique of the contemporary "consumer society." All expressions of Pop Art presuppose a sort of double bond with the world of consumerism and mass media. On the one hand, the artwork is reduced to a mere consumer product, thanks to the use of advertising language in the works and their serial reproduction through mechanical processes. On the other, the mass-produced images themselves become works of art, as a more genuine and truthful expression of the new society and thanks to the artist's recontextualization.

Giuliano Grittini's work focuses on the figure of Marilyn Monroe and is based on a kind of dual operation akin to the principles of pop art. Indeed, the quintessential iconic image of Marilyn Monroe has been doubly standardized, because her popularity is linked not only to her historical and artistic legacy, but also to the images captured by the father of pop art, Andy Warhol. Grittini thus plays with the very concept of pop and recontextualizes it by associating it with other images, creating a juxtaposition with the poet Alda Merini (another recurring subject of his), introducing overdubs of written texts and newspaper collages. Grittini's work offers a reflection on the poetics that shaped contemporary art in the 20th century.

Giuliano Grittini is an artist originally from Corbetta, where he was born in 1951. He trained at the School of Graphic Design in Milan and attended the studios of leading artists. He holds a degree in art printing and collaborates with several art and poetry magazines. He has held several exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

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