Dario Cusani, Al (Pacino), Print, 1993

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This work (r:0033) of 2009 dedicated to al (pacino) is one of the many portraits dedicated to great famous people … Read more This work (r:0033) of 2009 dedicated to al (pacino) is one of the many portraits dedicated to great famous people made with the technique of photocollage. The final solution came out after experiencing many of them on me, family and friends. A job to find the right framing of eyes and mouth, which are the 2 most important elements of a person’s expression. Finally the size tested with a portrait of my daughter chiara (r:0382) of cm 161x116 that you find in this catalogue portraits and self-portraits from 1964 to present - various techniques i started from a young age (8 years) to put on paper my "daydreams" that at elementary school i was interrupted by a jolt when the teacher yelled at me: "dario comes back to us!". Today (2024) i have therefore 66 years that i do portraits the first of which was dedicated to napoleon bonaparte of whom i had had several stories of great enterprises that had me passionate. In fact, in my life i have read many biographies of great characters that have always fascinated me because they were the only ones i could read because they told true stories. I explain better instead what happened while i read the novels: my fantasy overlapped to that of the author and so only after dozens of pages i noticed it and had to go back. In fact i did not remember what i had read with my eyes and not with my mind!!! returning to the portraits i used almost all techniques from pencil to pastel painting up to digital processing adding another reserved only portrait: the photo collage. It is a photo (taken by me or received from a collector like you) that i digitally process with a technique invented by me (and recorded) that, after various framing tests, allows me to process the final image on the computer. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity



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