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C.A.U.S. su ArsMeteo
Nuove e interessanti proposte di scritture con alfabeti, lettere e logo sono state elaborate dallo staff artistico di ArsMeteo.
Alfabeti e Calligrafia / Alphabet and Calligraphy
La promozione dell'immagine di una Nazione, del territorio, delle varie regioni, citta' e paesi, puo' essere veicolata anche con la calligrafia.
The image of Nations, local areas, regions, cities or countries, can also be promoted with handwriting.
Grotesquery San Carlo by Raffaele Palma
Visit the section: Grotesque Masks in Turin
Photos by Norberto Tosetti
Raffaele Palma’s grotesque masks stem from an innate tendency to the formal and cheeky brought to the extreme end. The author has the best expertised knowledge of the grotesque masks in the Cisalpine province his guide, that has been translated in different languages, is edited by the Città di Torino “ Torino Arguta – Turin Sharp “ and re-routes, in synthesis, the exposed research of “ sneers, snarls and grimaces” from 1500 to to-day reproduced in the architecture and monuments of Turin City.
Very important are the two alphabets (decorated capital letters) re-routing graphically what Raffaele Palma has proposed for years in ceramics, terra-cottas and plasters: “ the grotesque alphabet” and “the medieval alphabet”.
The author has acquired his knowledge in the grotesque art by going through the study of tribal masks, oriental masks, medieval masks, baroc and rococo masks up to the modern art masks. His work aims at concentrating in a single expression the individual moods and the conscience of the different masks (serial grotesque).
Thus by adding or eliminating small detalils from the face ( or snout ), Raffaele Palma intends to underline some aspects of the human soul, such as vanity, fear, pride, cunning, stupidity, grim, endurance, etc.
In particular the artist gives life to an old legend about a grotesque mask posed on a little fountain in San Carlo’s Sq. in Turin. Once upon a time – they say – when the nights were icy during the long winter season, the mask that was holding the nozzle of the ice water jet with its mouth, used to run for cover in one of the adjacent house courtyards but it changed its expression in order not to be recognized. At the very early dawn the mask went back to its job on the little fountain where for days in and days out horses and humans came to quench their thirst.
”Grotesque” is the word that describes everything that is funny, awkward, unnatural, that solicits a laugh even thongh mirthless.
Visit the section: Grotesque Masks in Turin