S. Michele configures Satana, emoji version - Ozmo - 2018
🔹 Technique:Acrylic on recycled PVC 🔹 Dimensions: 150 x 200 cm 🔹 Price : €12,250 🔹 Unique original work – Certificate of authenticity provided
In this bold and modern work, the artist revisits the epic confrontation between the archangel Saint Michael and the devil, blending the sacred and the digital with a touch of irony. Through the use of emoji faces—the angel sporting a haloed angelic smile, while the demon displays a purple mask with devilish features—the work plays with our iconographic and cultural references. The striking contrast between the solemnity of the scene and the humor of the emojis questions our contemporary way of perceiving good and evil, reducing the cosmic battle to a digital caricature.
The vibrant colors and geometric background bring a pop and contemporary dimension to this classic interpretation, emphasizing the blend of genres. A pixelated cursor arrow introduces another layer of reality, that of our virtual world, and suggests that this divine scene is also subject to the click of a digital viewer.
S. Michele sconfigge Satana, emoji version is a provocative and playful work that juxtaposes the eternal and the ephemeral, the sacred and the profane, inviting the viewer to reevaluate the way we consume, share and reinterpret art in the digital age.
