Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Luciana Rondolini's My Silver Path




            Luciana Rondolini was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires. She received a Graphic Design degree from the Buenos Aires Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism. She also has a Bachelors in Visual Arts.
            Her series I found the most interesting, My Silver Path, consists of a giant box full of rotting fruit encrusted with silver jewelry. The jewels are plastic but look like diamonds. From afar, the viewer sees silver and shiny jewels but up close, the rotting fruit and mold on the inside of the jewels is deliberately shown. The series touches on issues such as artificial beauty and the glamour of people in the media.
            I found the series interesting because it is always changing every day as the fruit continues to grow mold and deteriorate. It draws parallels to the social media and perhaps to people and their inner and outer beauty.

“This work feels like a visual metaphor for the irony contemporary human condition. The irony being that if we spend enough time to really look at the people we feel are the most beautiful attention seekers of the bunch we shall discover that there are likely to be the most ruined.

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