DANIELA D'AVINO
Artist | Art Therapist



Art Therapy
 Rossomarte

Selected Works
 Mina ventu
 Paurine e altre storie
 Ombrine
 Fungi
 Multitude
 Hope is the last to hit
 Alice
 Bocca della verità
 Oltreconfine/Abnormal
 Plugins for fridge

  Freaks

 Watercolors

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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 ... "
(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, sculpture, cm 7x7, 2005

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 12x5, 2005

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 6x4, 2004

Chiba,Freaks, sculpture, cm 3x6, 2005

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 6x6, 2004

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 8x10, 2016

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 5x7, 2007

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 8x3, 2004

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 3x7, 2004

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 7x3, 2005

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 2,5x4, 2007

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 17x13x7, 2013

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 6x3, 2007

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 11x4, 2007

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 3x5, 2004

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 4x6, 2004

Chiba, Freaks, sculpture, cm 2,5x3,2007