PAOLO CERIBELLI
b. 1978, Milan, Italy.
Paolo Ceribelli lives and works in Milan, Italy. His work is mostly focused on the manipulation
of
three-dimensional
small plastic toy soldiers meticulously placed onto canvases. He creates with them a pattern, a geometric structure setting out imaginary armies.
PAO LO CE R I B E L L I b. 1978, Milan, Italy
Ceribelli’s works goes further that the perspective of a painting and transcript in space and 3D.
He plays with the
canvas with a multitude of tiny objects: toy soldiers, jeeps and tanks. “The tiny, coloured plastic soldiers are a provocation, describing a geography of
territorial
indiscriminate
relations use
non-differentiated
of
based
on
anonymous,
military
masses.
Critic Giuseppe Blando explains it is also a reflection on the unsuitability of simulating war in children’s games. The World Flags series consists of shape reproducing the flags of the nations where the presence of the toy soldiers acquires a decorative aspect and gives the surfaces a mobile density.
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