Title of Artwork: “CORONAVIRUS TIME”
Artwork by Sergio Mario Illuminato
Year Created 2020
Summary of CORONAVIRUS TIME
In less than 100 days, worldwide, thousands of people died from the Coronavirus and half the world’s population is forced to remain at home in isolation for months and months due to the pandemic.
All About CORONAVIRUS TIME
I got stuck in front of this canvas, because I realized that I could not document with art the extermination of entire generations and the complex state of mind in living the quarantine. In the end I had to invent a new way of representing the unrepresentable.
If you combine all the colors, the result is white. So this white picture that blinds us really wants to be the totality of all colors.
We could argue that it wants to be the whole of our life, there in front of you in this moment closed at home. But maybe this work is asking us too, let there be light inside you, try to see further.
And of course, as we all know, letting there be light also means desire for justice, desire for truth.
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