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Opere Contemporanee Uniche di Claudio Scardino

Marlene Sarroff

Australian writer/artist

Finding ways to define reality and finding yourself immerse d in it, is the big question of our time.

As the 21st Century progresses and technology advances, the more we will become entrenched in unreal worlds, such as the internet, television, or video games. So when an artist such as Claudio Scardino comes along, we sit up and take notice. For here is an artist who takes his inspiration from life and reality and whose aim is to achieve reality as closely as possible.

Continually searching and striving for undiscovered territories, Claudio Scardino seeks to convey his ideas and inspirations through performance.

His performances are not staged in a theatre but in more informal ways, sometimes with a participating audience or simply in the street where the artist works on his drawings and paintings. The people in the street, the onlookers, become the unsuspecting audience while the artist, to some extent, becomes the performer. While performing in such a public way, he is fully concentrating on the work at hand in order to find himself immersed in reality.

His performance art is multidisciplinary, using video, poetry, sculpture and performative action, and actually creates a space, generating an energy where the participating audience is unavoidably jolted into staring reality in the face. Drawing from early mythological myths and the history of art as the subject matter, the artist then exhibits a light, humorous, playful exchange with the audience who then find that they cannot avoid finding themselves immersed in the reality of the moment, as they are called to action and jolted into reality .

Claudio Scardino is multifaceted artist, not only working with performance art, but also with sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographs while also being a scholar of Baroque painting and medieval sculpture and art history.

Throughout his career there have been no limits to his inventiveness, combining art with life, he looks for the most appropriate situations and then dives into the reality for then to be completely immersed in it. Through his performative actions he looks for ways to disrupt the conventional ideas of performance and audience.

Like a time traveler who captures parts of our history and beams it right to the present moment, in such a multitude of inventive ways that time and distance tend to merge into one. This is where Claudio Scardino’s performances really do become a magical tool.

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