Description
David Sommariva‘s Modern Love features a very famous kiss in pop art style, inspired by the plates of Roy Lichtenstein and painted on a wall of fuchsia tin plates.
The metal surface, entirely hand-painted, is rendered with extraordinary realism: the stains, cracks, rusted bolts, and peeling and flaking paint create the illusion of a real industrial wall. The kissing scene is interrupted by a visual chaos of stickers, Minions, and graffiti slogans; colorful candies, pills, scraps of paper, and a Coca-Cola cap float in the air, overlapping the painting, creating a truly realistic effect on the wall featured in the work.
The painting plays on the contrast between the romantic gesture of the kiss and the fragmented reality of the present, which accumulates objects and clogs the moment lived. This is how Modern Love appears: an uncertain and dynamic path, a continuous journey towards chaos rather than a safe and definitive landing, an exhortation to always love, despite the uncertainty of the future.
