feet 2019

121x43x69cm
mixed media

In the last few years I have focused on observing the human body in its various forms and diversity. I tried to understand what attracts me most about a body and to use these shapes as a physical representation of a mental state. The thing that always intrigued me the most was how such shapes could create such an attraction in me and therefore how artworks could attract the viewer and create an immediate visual connection. My works are legs and feet with exaggerated shapes and with distorted structures, they refer to the human physical connotations but they are representations of feelings that I have experienced during my childhood and are still part of my life. The sculptures are affected by my experimentation with different materials, sometimes they are a combination of real objects other times they are structures I created.

feet 2019

34x65x110cm
mixed media

feet 2019

109x40x70cm
mixed media

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Salvatore Pione

Italy

https://www.instagram.com/salvopione

Born in Messina in 1995, he is studying Fine Art at the University of Arts London after receiving a Diploma in Animation at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Turin, Italy. He lives and works in London. "My inspiration comes from episodes of everyday life; I like to observe and fantasize about how shapes, even the simplest ones, can create a feeling in the viewer and how I could transform these shapes into new combinations”.