World ap-Art magazine n.4 special edition- 2014
World ap-Art Special edition
ISSN 2283-7590
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- Author: Silvia Cataudella
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- Art director: Silvia Cataudella
- Copy editor: Giovanna Esposito
- Graphyc and web designer: Silvia Cataudella, Salvatore Salafia - Cover: Rosario Cataudella, “Cubo a tre facce” recycled plastic - ISSN 2283-7590
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Group - Promoter: Silvia Cataudella (Silviacat) - Copy editor: Giovanna Esposito
Silvia, Italy
Ilaria, Italy
Melanie, UK
- Graphyc and web designer: Silvia Cataudella, Salvatore Salafia (Supersal)
- Digital artist: Charlene Murray Zatloukal (Rustic Goth), Domenico Principato
Sandra, Italy
Domenico S. Italy Despoena, Greece
- Dolls makers: Idania Salcido (Danita art), Melanie Ashton (Anthropomorphica)
- Illustrators: Domenico Scalisi, Sandra Lagozino, Mariangela Licciardello, Charlene Murray Zatloukal, Domenico Principato
Idania, Mexico
Salvo, Italy
Darren, UK
Giovanna, Italy
Mariangela, Italy
Charlene, USA
- Painters: Silvia Cataudella, Ilaria Vista and Rosanna Vista (Ohmydolls!) , Despoena Leonis, Idania Salcido (Danita art), Charlene Murray Zatloukal - Sculptors: Domenico Scalisi (Nobu Happy Spooky) , Melanie Ashton, Caterina Zacchetti - Designers toys: Silvia Cataudella, Darren Clegg.
Domenico P. Italy
Laura, Italy
Caterina Italy
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- Fashion designer: Domenico Principato - Photographer: Laura Ghellere
ap-Art Recycling
Junk has been an integral part of human life since pre-historic times. But a large amount of recyclable materials wasn’t available then, as it is by now, thanks to the amazing technological progress of the last decades! The technological blessing did not come without a huge mass of junk.
Recycling is a process to change waste materials into new products to prevent the waste of potentially useful things and reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials and both energy usage and pollution. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics.
Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing. While most of Junk has to be actually destroyed, there is still left a considerable quantity that we can use to create art, called Recycled Art. This involves looking at trash in new and inventive ways. So we can say that recycling trash and transforming it into art is like finding treasure out of nowhere.
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Special guest.
Rosario Cataudella
This special edition is dedicated to the memory of Rosario Cataudella, an Italian talented artist, father of Silvia Cataudella, founder of our group. Rosario based his art on the concept of recycling.He tried to give a new life to used material and junk, creating incredible artworks through new techniques imagined by himself. Plastic bags and bottles, fishing nets etc. are melted together to create new shapes and give us new emotions. He was born in Syracuse on 01-02-1947, where he studied and graduated in the local Art Institute. He taught drawing in some of the high schools of the city and of the province from 1968, dealing in the meantime with window dressing, advertising graphics, decoration, scenography, sculpture, interior design. “Cavallino� Ricycled plastic bag
“Natura morta” Ricycled plastic
“Cammeo” Ricycled plastic
“Busto sdraiato” Ricycled plastic bottles.
“Aurora” Ricycled plastic bottles. His last project was about an innovative jewelry collection called “Solo mio” (“Only mine”), but this remained an incomplete project. Rosario preferred recycled materials for his sculptures, mainly plastic, giving particular importance to social issues. Rosario, unfortunately, has left us prematurely in January 2011. You can see more artworks of Rosario on his official blog at this link: http://rosariocataudellla.blogspot.it The blog is periodically updated from his daughter, with inedite artworks “Nereide” Ricycled plastic bottles.
“Untitled” Ricycled plastic.
“Madonna” Ricycled plastic.
“Passione” Ricycled copper and Tin.
His works are mainly made of three types of materials: -plastic bottles, as in ”Aurora” or ”Busto sdraiato” -fused plastic bags as in ”Madonna”, “ Natura morta”, ”Cavallino”, ”Estasi”. The molten plastic is reassembled creating a lightweight, solid and resistant material, that seems similar to marble or lava stone. -Copper and Tin fused together into a network of networks (? non ho capito), a technique that creates a fascinating play of transparencies and lights, as in ”Passione” and some busts. In this page the work ”Passione” (“Passion”) aims to express the excruciating suffering of Christ on the cross through an infinite process which makes the piece of art change over time, as if it was alive. The acid-treated copper undergoes a continuous oxidation and this edits the colour and the nuances of metal continuously. On the opposite page an untitled artwork that was discovered in the workshop of Rosario: it has never been shown, but we like to display it as it is very interesting, despite being very simple in composition.
In his early works or in the pieces created for theatre or an event, the material used is carved and treated polystyrene. Here we see ”Il pensatore” (“The Thinker”), a bas-relief made of polystyrene. A man sitting while pondering, with his mind full of ideas, influences the space around him , shaping it into geometric forms.
“ Il pensatore” Polystyrene.
“ Aiace” Polystyrene.
“Aiace” is the biggest of all Rosario’s sculptures. It is about 200 x 250 cm. It was carved for a musical event. It is a clear example of one of the techniques used by the artist, the overlapping planes. Rosario loved geometric design and he was very good at discovering new techniques or graphic shortcuts to realize even the most complex geometric structures. This love for geometry and technical drawing is very evident in many of his works. The forms are decomposed into geometric shapes and reconstructed by overlapping planes that give them depth, three-dimensionality and contrasts of light and shadow.
“Cubo a tre facce” Recycled plastic.
“ Cubo a tre facce” (“Three sided cube”) is the cover artwork of this number and it is a special and unique piece of art. It belongs to an artistic period when his works were slowly shifting toward a greater range of colours. “Lampedusa ultima spiaggia” (“Lampedusa, last beach”) comes from this period, too. His works, mainly black, white or in gray shades up to that time, now show a new light thanks to the use of bright colours like blue and orange, reminiscent of the sea and of the warmth of Sicily. The reference to the sea it is clear even from the material that he used: the fishing nets, that are merged to become human faces. The cube always refers to geometry, but this work shows a greater emotional expressiveness than the previous ones.
Rosario loved design and has experimented in this field. The works that have remained are those that he produced for his own House, in particular lamps. Here are a couple of examples. Even in design the fundamental principle that directs his work is recycling. The chandeliers are made from a collection of materials that came from a “previous life�, like an old dish drainer, candlesticks, water pipes, metal packaging nets, cutlery etc. Rosario found a new use for each object.
The latest Rosario’s project was a line of handmade jewelry and recycled materials. He managed to use an innovative process to treat natural seeds (olive pits) and fig tree leaves, that he combined with metallic elements or natural stones to create the line ”Solo mio” (“Only mine”). Review by Silvia Cataudella
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Rosario Cataudella It’s easy to understand that we couldn’t interview Rosario. Luckily, I’ve kept an old video where he described some of his works (it’s where I’ve taken the pictures that you can appreciate here); I’ve written down his words and according to those I’ve imagined a complete interview. In this video Rosario is really ironic: he talks about his works like he was being interviewed, but he makes a funny critic, as he was used to do, but I think that this can’t be well appreciated from this transcription.
“Estasi” what would you like to tell us about this sculpture? I’d like that you focused your attention on the base of the head, made of garbage bags, that almost seems lava stone, with a peculiar warm. Does it look satisfied? Yes, in ecstasy... it seems to have smoked...
Is the head made of plastic, too? Yes, it is; all is made of plastic and recycled, even the screw which serves as axis.
I notice that in different works appears an element, that each time creates different forms, the horn. What would you like to say about this? The horn is a modular element, taken directly from nature and exploited for different solutions.
“ Il bucranio?” Ricycled plastic. As you can see here, the horn is the compositional element to create the “Bucranium”, a classical figure that we have seen in Roman architecture and art and that here comes to a new life thanks to the use of the recycled material. In “Che c’è?” (in the following page) the horn is the main element again; its modular and exaggerated repetition brings us back to infinity: this element, infact, could be repeated infinitely: In this case, however, it does not represent a question mark, as someone thought, but a torsion of a bust, infact its title is “Che c’è?” (What’s up?)
“ Che c’è?” Ricycled plastic.
You have entirely sculpted the work “Uh!” without using casts and models, as you are used to do. Tell us about it. “Uh!” is a bit in the style of Munch, the face has an experienced expression with haggard and distorted features, you can feel the pain of the material. Did you entirely sculpt “Cavallino”, too? Yes; this is clear from the different stylization of the two faces; it represents a foal looking for his mother.
Sometimes you faced a religious theme, for example in this work, “Madonna”. What would you like to say about it?
Can I ask you a question? Look it from behind: what does it look like? I know that your twisted mind will make you see a phallic symbol.
Then look the sculpture on the other side: it’s a Madonna with her Child, sacred and profane togheter. On the next page, some shots of Rosario in his workshop accompanied by his “Mechanical bat” He created it for a theatrical performance; thanks to some inner mechanisms, the bat could move and flap its wings. Besides deeply loving art, my father was very good at fixing everything; he often loved to create his working tools himself, adapting them to the needs of the moment and of the work he was realizing
A good friend remembers him this way: “I will always remember him for his speed walk, typical of who has so many things to do; for his fair and never offensive reproaches; for his playful attitude; for his willingness to listen to people in need; for his optimism and his philosophical ideas� (thanks to Carmelo).
World ap-Art magazine n.4 Special edition - 2014