The Art of Antonio Natale

The essence of the Art of Antonio Natale is an invitation to an internal as well as an external voyage. Through the stories he tells, the Artist opens a secret doorway to an enchanted universe and invites the beholder to discover a thousand messages through a game of light and transparence mixed with tenderness and sarcasm. His messages are those of silenced people, the oppressed, the weak and the forgotten. They are also poems expressed through the eyes of love and internal beauty.

In the world of Antonio Natale fragility is source of love. It is primordial to defend and protect it at any cost. Heroes are not always those cited in History books and the significance of received ideas as well as their consequences are not always what the world is used to. The Artist incites the beholder to look at reality in a new and different manner. He opens a silenced horizon that screams through his colors and his clair-obscure games. He denounces injustice and sometimes paints reality in an abrupt and sharp manner.

Antonio Natale has chosen out of circulation banknotes from the world over to express his views and feelings, his revolt in the face of injustice and his acclamation for life and for hope. He takes the spectator on a voyage thought the ages, countries and their diversity with the banknotes he uses to create. Thus, changing the significance of his support, for not only he restores the lost value of the banknotes, but he also unifies the people of the world throughout the ages under the unique banner of Art. He therefore expresses the fact that we face the same battle and the same hurts and invites us to introspect, and reflect on human condition.

It’s an ode to LOVE, an S.O.S that he sends to the people of the world.

The Creative Process of Antonio Natale

The creative process of Antonio Natale is built around three major pillers :

• Antonio is the only known and recognized artist worldwide who paints exclusively on out of circulation banknotes from the world over. He uses banknotes that have lost their trade value, and transforms them into artworks; thus, changing, not only their meaning but also giving them a new identity and a brand new destiny. He also gathers the people of the world represented by his supports under one same banner of Art and invites the beholder to travel in space and in different eras of History.

• Antonio Natale is an active artist who does not fear expressing himself through his paintings and to point at the injustices of the world. Each banknote has a story to tell. Antonio gives voice to their stories and becomes the cries of the oppressed, the defender of widows and orphans, of the forgotten victims of wars, and exposes in this manner a reality that is hidden from us. He invites the beholder to reflect and introspect though each painting he creates.

• It is the banknotes’ stories that Antonio tells. It is the first time in the History of Art, that a painting is not a mere reflection of the artist, but that the artist becomes the tool and vector of the messages of his own supports. In order to show this collaboration with his supports, Antonio integrates their details in in his compositions, in a subtle and magic manner, and creates windows behind each painting to invite light to shine trough them, revealing not only their astonishing beauty but transforming them into marvelous kaleidoscopes of a thousand colors, such as enchanted stain-glass windows of cathedrals.

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