DANIELA D'AVINO
paintings, sculptures, drawings
Selected Works
Family memories
Fungi
Multitude
Hope is the last to hit
Alice
Bocca della verità
Oltreconfine/Abnormal
Plugins for fridge
Freaks
Watercolors
CV
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Miniature sculptures series made with sectioned and reassembled parts of old toys, dimensions variable from 2cm to 10cm. "... The Latin term "Monstrum" indicates a divine sign, a prodigy, and means to warn, to admonish. The monster therefore in its original meaning is the sudden appearance, manifestation, showing of something extraordinary that creates a sense of wonder and amazement and can be happy or harmful, thus generating reassurance or fear ... " (from The encyclopedia of monsters, Linguaggio Globale, Milan, Italy) Little beings running away from themselves, the Freaks as well as Bosch's monsters, are not inventions but portraits. "... It is this normality of the impossible that appears to be able, alone, of frightening the saint in the midst of the unleashing of the devils ..." (Jurgis Baltrusaitis, Le Moyen Âge fantastique: antiquités et exotismes dans l'art gothique)  Chiba Freaks 2005 plastic toys, iron cm 7x7 Castelnuovo (AQ), Italy  Chiba Freaks 2005 plastic toys cm 12x5 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 6x4 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2005 plastic toys cm 3x6 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 6x6 Rome, Italy |
 Chiba Freaks 2016 plastic toys cm 5x4, glas dome cm 8x10 Berlin, Germany  Chiba Freaks 2007 plastic toys cm 5x7 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 8x3 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 3x7 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2005 plastic toys cm 7x3 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2007 plastic toys cm 2,5x4 Rome, Italy |
 Chiba Freaks 2013 plastic toys cm 4x2, wooden glas case cm 17x13x7 Galerie Bauchhund Salonlabor Berlin, Germany  Chiba Freaks 2007 plastic toys, mixed media cm 6x3 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2007 plastic toys cm 11x4 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 3x5 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2004 plastic toys cm 4x6 Rome, Italy  Chiba Freaks 2007 plastic toys cm 2,5x3 Rome, Italy |