bioephemera is art + biology - anything and everything from representations of science in art and literature to the neuroscience of aesthetics. Along with lots of other stuff that's just plain interesting.
Cristina Vergano, 2006
Via the wonderful Phantasmaphile, I just discovered artist Cristina Vergano. Her latest series, "Figures of Speech," are like Old Masters crossed with children's puzzles - playful Renaissance rebuses that spell out their own titles (key at the bottom of this post).
Cristina Vergano, 2006
Vergano mixes trompe l'oeil with typefaces, clear-eyed, enigmatic people and animals, and allegorical landscapes to perfectly balance frivolity with the suggestion of deeper meaning. Vergano said in the artist's statement for an earlier exhibition, "Knowledge and our approaches to it are the subjects of my paintings."
Cristina Vergano, 2006
Also check out "Cristina's World: Chronicles of Evolution," Vergano's 2000 series, which plays with ideas of humanity, definitions, and nature, in an alternate artistic reality inhabited by fantastic hybrids.
Cristina Vergano, 2006
Titles of the paintings in this post:
1. Keep clear of fears and wants
2. Please leave when it is wise to
3. My my, why fear?
4. Deep ignorance
Humanities & Social Science
Comments
Is that the artist in the picture? No, not the bunny, the pig, the bugs or the hen, silly, the person!
Posted by: Ian | July 1, 2008 6:56 AM
I have no idea. I'm not sure if she represents any of her paintings as self-portraits.
Posted by: Jessica Palmer | July 1, 2008 8:49 AM
One begins to wonder how many times she will return to the ol' trusty "ants" before they lose their luster.
Posted by: John Ohab | July 1, 2008 9:14 AM