About the artist

Arena Francesco

Italy

Francesco Arena, born in 1966 in Genoa, is an artist and photographer known for his site-specific projects, including photographic series, polaroids, and installations that incorporate objects and video projections. His work explores the concept of photography capturing only the surface of things, using subjects and objects to reveal their deeper essence. Arena investigates "Portrait/Identity," focusing on their origins and symbolic significance, portraying the body/object as a representation of identity through the aesthetic codes of mass-media language.

Francesco Arena, born in 1966 in Genoa, is an artist and photographer known for his site-specific projects, including photographic series, polaroids, and installations that incorporate objects and video projections. His work explores the concept of photography capturing only the surface of things, using subjects and objects to reveal their deeper essence. Arena investigates "Portrait/Identity," focusing on their origins and symbolic significance, portraying the body/object as a representation of identity through the aesthetic codes of mass-media language.
About the artwork

Emergency of Beauty


Photography. Lambda print on aluminium.

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In Emergency of Beauty, Francesco Arena explores identity through video and photography, using a Lambda print on aluminum to enhance depth and clarity. The series isolates anatomical details—hands, mouths, eyes—turning them into metaphors of fluid transformation, where genders merge and shift. A rigorous, ongoing study of body perception and expressive identit
Other details
  • Size 117 W x 80 H x 0.5 D cm
  • Mediums Color
  • Styles Conceptual
  • Creation year 2004
  • Authenticity This work includes the artist's signature
  • Ships from Italy
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