{"product_id":"modern-painting-signed-gianpietro-cavenaghi-metaphor-of-life-2008","title":"Modern Painting Signed Gianpietro Cavenaghi Metaphor of Life 2008","description":"Mixed media on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left-hand corner. On the reverse, a further signature, date and title.\nThe artist Gianpietro Cavenaghi, who lives and works in the province of Lecco, employs a distinctive, textural technique that is clearly evident in this work: on the base canvas, he creates the ground using a cement-based stabiliser into which he incorporates other materials, often ‘poor’ materials such as cardboard (here, corrugated cardboard), paper and plastic, which lend the composition a decidedly textural quality.\nOther materials are often added on top of the figures, such as the glitter in this work.\nAlthough his works are figurative, they always carry a metaphorical meaning: for Cavenaghi, the bullfighter duelling with the bull represents a metaphor for life – a metaphor left open to the viewer’s interpretation","brand":"Di Mano in Mano Co Uk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56468643479931,"sku":"ARARCO0326642","price":299.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/3880\/2555\/files\/ARARCO0326642_1.jpg?v=1790204982","url":"https:\/\/www.dimanoinmano.co.uk\/products\/modern-painting-signed-gianpietro-cavenaghi-metaphor-of-life-2008","provider":"Di Mano in Mano Co Uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}