Presentation
Content of this website consists in the representation of cultural, environmental and social issues. The art collections, performed over years, range from social painting to nature photography with a special focus on desert ecosystems.
The social art collections tackles the intrinsic representation of bodies and characters, while the historical collections such as Portraits in red and grey and Italica deal with archetype, myth and historical portrait. The latter evokes the naturalistic style and the expressive freedom of the archaic Mediterranean and Italic populations. In these collections man becomes the spokesman of universal values intended to exalt nature as a manifestation of divine.
I understood the importance of environment protection since I was a child when coming back from Kenya I suffered from a strong longing for Africa. The vision of wild and uncontaminated spaces awakens man’s ancestral belonging to primitive state in which man lived in symbiosis with nature. Nowadays technology and virtual comunications have driven man away from his primordial istinctuality and from himself. I realized then how important it had to be for me to communicate a message of support for nature and give my contribution in the conservation. The photographic reportages address issues related to the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. By means of photography I seek to convey a message of respect for environment by stimulating collective perception and awareness about biodiversities and uniqueness of wildlife species.
The pictorial production is expressed through the representation of visual narratives and social content. Main themes addressed within my painting are the fear of diversity, human rights, social resilience, fight against the hate speech and prevarication of power, representation of unconscious content that influence the human expression.
Visit the Interludes series by The 34gallery.org to read the interview about social content in my painting here: https://34gallery.org/interludes/f/34-gallery-artist-vincenzo-cohen
Read an excerpt from the Armored Corps collection on The Autoethnographer magazine here: https://theautoethnographer.com/armored-corps-the-spirit-of-combativeness-and-human-resilience-graphic-narratives-2022-23/
Social Painting and Desert Photography provide insights regarding social and environmental justice and on art as a means for mental health care.
Goals and objectives
This website stems from the need to promote the authorial artistic production. The projects presented focus on the wildlife safeguard, landscape preservation and species conservation in order to raise awareness through art education and dissemination.
One further purpose consist in the creation of collaborations with Art Institutions and Nature Conservancies in the attempt to join socially committed artists and naturalists in a connecting network. Art can really be a means and an aid to contribute in the conservation of biodiversity and combat the risk of extinction. Art can be a means to denounce the injustices.
Request and orders
It is possible to send questions and submit requests for commissioned paintings and custom works from the menu item "contacts". In case of sale the certificate of authenticity duly completed and signed and the receipt for payment will be provided directly by the artist. In case of commission the artist provides the contract of commission to sell.
Policy
All rights deriving from the dissemination, distribution, eventual sale of the works presented are reserved to the Author by law (L. 633/1941) on "Protection of copyright and other rights associated with its exercise," and by Title IX (articles 2575-2583) of Book V of the Italian Civil Code (1942).
Photos in the page backgrounds are works by the artist.