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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Leo Contini
| Leo Contini 98, Yefet Street 68171 Jaffa-Tel Aviv Israel Email: leocontini@012.net.il Web: http://www.artandbuy.com/ leocontini |
Leo Contini was born in Nice in 1939. He went on to live in Italy, where he gained a degree in nuclear engineering, until 1967, when he established himself in Israel. Since the 1970s he has devoted himself entirely to artistic creation with a scientific connotation. He has had 24 one-man exhibitions. Contini lives and works in Jaffa.
His artistic methods and works include: Fragmented Painting, employing basic components of different kinds, sizes and shapes and investigating organization modes and microstructural features down to the edge of texture. Institutional Anamorphism, the application of cylindrical anamorphism to a set consisting of a mirror-polished silver beaker standing on a saucer variously etched with anamorphical patterns that reflect (and conform) themselves on the beaker surface. This mode of decoration was applied to a classic Judaica object, the Kiddush set. Several hundreds of these objects, employing geometrical, topographical, calligraphic and figurative patterns were made. The 3 ½ D’s Painting Canon (D for dimension; 3 ½ connoting enhanced plasticity), using the perspective deformation of circles spread at random on the surface of the object to be painted, to suggest its spatial configuration. Anasculpture: A 3 ½ D’s painting is transferred onto a metal sheet and the deformed circles (normally into ellipses) cut-out by photo-etching or laser cutting; these sheets are placed within a fiberglass paraboloid. The object has a dramatically plastic effect, in spite of its being flat and mainly inexistent, due to the holes pervading it: the neologism anasculpture was created for it. |
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| Posted 15 June 2005. |
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