The video documents a live artistic performance by artist Eugenio Belgrado, made during the Mestre in Arte 2015 event. The event also featured a solo exhibition by the artist, who displayed a selection of his works.
The work created during the performance was sold at the conclusion of the event through a charity auction.
The timelapse video of the performance
The video is a timelapse made with a fixed camera, so as not to interfere with the artist’s work during the entire performance. The photographs used were selected and then processed in post-production, with the aim of giving more visual dynamism to the final result.
I luoghi del sogno – Eugenio Belgrado
“I luoghi del sogno” is a heterogeneous collection of Eugenio Belgrado’s works from different contexts: some are derived from picture books, others are visual projects related to completed stories or still under development. Alongside these are graphic exercises, materials born from paths of artistic experimentation, studies, and autonomous works, the result of free inspiration and instinctive creativity.
Belgrado’s imaginative universe moves within a rich symbolic texture, strongly influenced by Surrealism and Metaphysics, while showing a clear affinity with nineteenth- and pre-nineteenth-century symbolism. His works evoke grotesque and dreamlike atmospheres, where opposites and ambiguities coexist: attraction and repulsion, rational and irrational, logical and illogical. Rather than offering answers, these images invite open reflections and existential questions.
Technically, the artist employs a variety of visual languages: etching, lithography, ink drawing, watercolor and other hybrid techniques, selected according to the expressive needs of each work. His practice is distinguished by a non-sectarian approach, in which different areas of art are considered interconnected and complementary, fostering continuous creative contamination.
The final work
Because the work was sold shortly after completion and I did not have a chance to photograph it directly, the final image was reconstructed through retouching from one of the shots used in the timelapse.
