MIGUEL ANGEL GIOVANETTI
OVERLAYS Series (Superpositions)
This series takes as its starting point the images of the vests created by the artist, designer, and Futurist advertiser Fortunato Depero (1892–1960).
These vividly colored vests—remarkably unconventional for the early 20th century—serve as a reference for a body of work that began in 2022 and comprises digital works, drawings, paintings, and collages.
Overlays situates itself within geometric abstraction, where images are fragmented and expanded across the pictorial plane into countless details of geometric forms, counterbalanced by complementary and opposing colors. The result is a powerful compositional dynamism in which various techniques intertwine.
The collages, presented in different formats, bring together papers of varying thicknesses painted in a wide range of colors, binding pencil lines that articulate the composition, and a textured finish achieved through gestural applications of varnish across the entire surface.