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Luigi D'Amato | Spiritual Box, 2020
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Category:Art / Medium - Wood
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800.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2024 May 24 @ 17:38UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Luigi D'Amato, Sant'Antonio, Ticino, Switzerland
Spiritual Box, 2020
Wood
4 x 3 x 0.11 inches
My idea of art is to elicit an emotional and visual response through the medium of turning and embellishing wood. I focus on particular themes and designs that surround me, and are the basis of my expressive work.
These particular designs are everywhere in our everyday lives, for example: seeing a ruined ancient wall, that generates feelings or memories of past events, or seeing a particular pattern on a church wall generates others.
I carefully select the wood for my work, sometimes using the wood's color, grain and appearance to convey meaning.
On some works, I use acrylic and metallic colors to accentuate the feeling generated by the design.
Similarly, as a writer uses a pen and paper to convey a thought, emotion or a memory, I use the piercing tool as my "pen" to do the same in wood."
My desire is that through my work, and observer will experience similar emotions and memories that I have experienced during my creative journey of making.
My name is Luigi D’Amato, I was born in Italy, but am now a Swiss citizen, living in the Canton of Ticino, in the Italian part of Switzerland.
I own a cyber security company in Lugano, but live in nearby Sant'Antonio, a small village at 1000 meters above sea level. There, I live with my wife Deanna, our two cats Bimby and Teo. My home is in a forest, surrounded by thousands of square meters of trees, animals and vegetation of all types.
Walking through the woods, I kept noticing fallen trees--birch, chestnut, maples, and ash. And then I became curious about how to make use of trees that were rotting away. I purchased a "Logosol Farmer" mobile sawmill and started giving new life to wood, milling boards from the fallen trees for future use. Later in 2017, I learned the basics of woodturning from Matthias Bachofen, a master woodturner who has a school in Lamone, Ticino.
After a bit of bowls, plates, glasses and other commonly used objects, I felt that I had to find something else that stimulated my curiosity. The passion for engraving was born when I saw some artworks done by my father-in-law (an engraver in brass).
I always try to go beyond and exceed my limits, and in piercing and accessory processing I found my focus.
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