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The Vitruvian Man is not just a study of human proportion, but it represents the graphic synthesis of the harmony of the human being in the cosmos, in agreement with the universalist spirit of that period. It depicts a male human body in two superimposed positions and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square , according to the rules of the Aura Section. In this way Leonardo finds in the human being itself the solution of the impossible mathematical problem of squaring the circle. In this symbolic representation the man is the measure of all things, and the cosmos is at a human scale.
In my artwork the Vitruvian man is partially decomposed and single elements of its picture reproduced themselves beyond the borders of its microcosm, defined from the main circle and square.
What is going to happen to the Vitruvian Man in this age of “digitalization” and "virtualization" that has involved also the art, especially the painting, the first among all arts and sciences as Leonardo used to assert?
Probably to survive at this digital pandemic outbreak he must mutate himself.
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