Polifemo,
2025
Salvo Ligama
Print : Screen Print
76 x 56 x 0.01 cm 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€250
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Numbered and limited to 30 copies
21 copies available
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Hand-signed by artist
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76 x 56 x 0.01 cm 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Italy
A striking two-color silkscreen by Salvo Ligama, this work reinterprets the classical sculptural portrait through a contemporary, almost eroded visual language. The subject—a bearded, ancient figure reminiscent of Greco-Roman statuary—emerges from a textured field of turquoise tones, where painterly gestures and grainy overlays disrupt the solidity of the form.
The image oscillates between permanence and decay: the face appears both monumental and dissolving, as if time itself were actively reshaping it. Dripping elements and rough, almost abrasive textures evoke a sense of material fragility, transforming the iconic stability of sculpture into something fluid and transient.
Printed on high-quality Fabriano Artistico 300g/m² 100% cotton paper, the work retains a tactile richness that enhances its visual depth. The limited palette intensifies the emotional impact, allowing light and shadow to define the contours of the face in a dynamic, almost atmospheric way.
This limited edition of 30, hand-signed and numbered by the artist, stands as a compelling dialogue between classical heritage and contemporary graphic experimentation.
Details:
Technique: Two-color silkscreen
Paper: Fabriano Artistico 300g/m², 100% cotton
Edition: Limited edition of 30, hand-signed and numbered
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Ligama, sicilian. Born in 1986. He studied in Catania where his artistic career began.Student of the Academy of Fine Arts, he soon became Assistant to the Chair of Engraving which he left in 2015 to devote himself exclusively to painting. After years of research on printing techniques, he continued his artistic journey by investigating the pixels as elements that make up the virtual image. He painted his composition and dissolution mechanisms while in 2015 made his debut with the solo exhibition 8Bit in Bologna later presented in Vodnjan (Croatia).
In his investigation the pixels are the atoms of a new telematic and inconsistent matter, they are the pigments of a divisionist painting, the cells that welcome the sound-color frequencies analyzed by him and converted through a co-creation process with an algorithm of artificial intelligence. His painting practice soon evolved in studio and public spaces; in 2016 he created his first public works between Catania, Palermo and Rome. He took part in the Emergency Festival of Giardini Naxos, the Amt Project in Catania and created a permanent work inside Palazzo della Cultura in Catania. He also painted three altarpieces in the Church of the Crucifix in Caltagirone. The following years saw him dedicated to large-scale interventions. The first one at the Palacongressi of Agrigento, then at the Farm Cultural Park and in Trapani, where he painted on the entire surface of an imposing eco-monster seized from the mafia. In 2019 he took part in Abstracta (Palazzo Trigona Noto, Edieuropa Gallery Rome), an exhibition that brings together the most important Street Artists of the Italian panorama. Matera, Capital of European Culture Foundation, commissioned him to do public work in the city in 2019. He was also among the artists of Countless Cities, the Biennial of the Cities curated by Farm Cultural Park. In 2019 he was also invited by the Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow for the Artika Festival and the Macro (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome) for a residence in the Macro Asilo project. In 2020 he is in the Festiwall line up for the Bitume Platform in Ragusa and in 2021 called by the Capital of Culture Foundation for a public work in Parma. His best-known work is UL which manipulates the Sicilian rural landscape by transferring new information on the ruins: audio recordings reworked in colors that result in unpublished combinations dictated by the palette provided by the algorithm. The pixels become mobile and macro and the colors find balance with the territory that belongs to them, forcing travelers to stop and look at the landscape. This work is a sort of artistic meditation for Ligama who, after arriving at the essence of the virtual image, restarts from the origins of our figurative culture. Since 2019 colors coexist with classical figures that, like ruins, suddenly appear in his work. This series is called Noblesse Oblige and it also characterizes his current private and public production, in Italy and abroad.
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