Costantino Zicarelli
Pedro Ubaldo
November 2007
Unpredictable and brazen, this enfant terrible will first annoy with his graffiti splashed artworks. With unspeakable titles as "The Pimple of the Holy Ghost", and dogfaces in "A Three-Part Love Quotation", the artist is relentlessly irreverent.
Much can be made of the gloomy greys and unforgiving bands of black he coats sections of his paintings with, tasking onlookers to fill in their own blanks, whether that be color or detail, all the while trying to make sense of it all.
Simultaneously Zicarelli refuses to be subtle about the writing on the walls of his consciousness, spewing what the more shy might call profanity.
Zicarelli's preoccupation with the unlikely has iconic Mussolini in "Unmistakable the One Person Who Did Everything and Yet He Failed", here almost in adulation, and seeking redress. Dante?s torso is not spared in "Paradiso was Considered Toilet Paper". Time-lapsed images of trench-coated soldiers in "Destroyed House and Destroyed History" share gallery walls with the portrait of a morose "Pedro Ubaldo Ain't Holy Anymore".
Zicarelli is obtrusive in his cultural angst and with impunity, urges the art viewer's attention into accepting his message arrow -straight and mirror- clear into their own realities, be that love ("Lovers Finding and Understanding Nothing") or loss ("In the End, the Predictable Happened. The Funeral of the Beloved God Was Revealed").
And what is Zicarelli's reality in all this display where he quarrels with what the viewer knows to be predictably beautiful and bright? This artist indulges in bashing the senses of those who expect the meanings of the artwork to be immediately apparent!
Zicarelli startles, asking nothing of anyone. As viewers of his art, we feel the discomfort of having to take a long hard look at our personal standards by which we judge artworks; how to free our own minds of the Shoulds that prevent us from experiencing and reflecting on that vital Trinitarian relationship among the Artist, the Artwork, and the Onlooker.
Zicarelli's work invites us to that rare opportunity.
- Myra de Leon-Go
Works by this artist:
Unmistakably The One Person Who Did Everything But Failed
6 x 5 feet
Oil on Canvas
2007
In The End The Inevitable Happened
8 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas 2007
Sympathy for the Devil
60 x 40 inches
Oil on Canvas (050)
2008
Pedro Ubaldo Ain\'t Holy Anymore
5 x 4 feet
Oil on Canvas 2007
Paradiso
5 x 4 feet
Oil on Canvas 2007
Lovers Finding and Understanding Nothing
4 x 3 feet
Oil on Canvas 2007
Ghost
30 x 24 inches
Oil on Canvas (015)
2008
It was the moment that made everything possible
24 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas (015)
2008
Rompi Pame Automatico
29.5 x 22.75 inches
Mixed Media on Paper
2007
Drawing 1
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 2
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 3
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 4
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 5
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 6
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 7
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Drawing 8
12 x 9 inches
pen and ink on Paper
2007
Defining Stilled Life
4 x 6 feet
Oil on Canvas (070)
2008
Stilled Life
6 x 4 feet
Oil on Canvas (070)
2008
Forever Love A
5 x 6 feet
Oil on Canvas (080)
2008
Forever Love B
5 x 6 feet
Oil on Canvas (080)
2008
Love Forever A
5 x 6 feet
Oil on Canvas (080)
2008
Love Forever B
5 x 6 feet
Oil on Canvas (080)
2008
Lifeless Ordinary: Nurse Mother
6 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0150)
2009
Lifeless Ordinary: Human Skull
6 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0150)
2009
Lifeless Ordinary: Burning House
6 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0150)
2009
Lifeless Ordinary: Taxidermies Birds
6 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0150)
2009
The Great Dictator
4 x 5 feet
Oil on Canvas (060)
2009
For the Love That We Admire
3 x 4 feet
Oil on Canvas (050)
2009
For the Love That We Admire (Detail)
3 x 4 feet
Oil on Canvas (050)
2009
In the name of ultra violence layered unto the destructive atrocities, patterned into the last ever
8 panels of 2 x 4 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper
2006-2008
Like Rats, It Returns To Its True Form
Mixed Media Installation (080)
2009
Like Rats, It Returns To Its True Form
Mixed Media Installation (080)
2009
Like Rats, It Returns To Its True Form
Mixed Media Installation (080)
2009
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
A Beautiful Aferlife
60 x 72 (diptych)
Oil on Canvas (088)
2008
We are the kids that your parents warned you about
6.5 x 7 feet
Oil on Canvas (0150)
2010
1:10:17 (After The Birds)
6.5 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0170)
2010
1:11:00 (After The Birds)
6.5 x 8 feet
Oil on Canvas (0170)
2010
Everything is not going to be alright
Dimensions variable
Wood and mirror (0680)
2010
We are here together forever until the world will be on the verge of sorrow
Dimensions variable
Wood, enamel and neon light
2010
Daddy and Mommy in the Garden Having a Cup of Tea
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
Children Playing in the Beach
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
A Dozen Red Roses for the Beautiful Bride
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
A New Born Puppy
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
Lil Sister Crying to a Romantic Film
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
Couple Kissing and Laughing (Joy)
11 x 16 inches
Pen and Ink on Paper (015)
2010
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (Zombie Head)
8 x 5 inches
Oil on Canvas (007)
2010
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