Achille Lauro becomes Michelangelo's David: the work of Giulio Marchetti

Singer Achille Lauro as Michelangelo’s David. This is how the popular figure, fresh from his participation in the Sanremo Festival with the song Domenica and his victory at the Una voce per San Marino festival that will allow him to participate in theEurovision Song Contest as the bearer of the Titan republic, was portrayed by artist Giulio Marchetti.

On his return to Milan, Marchetti’s painting entitled David Lauro was waiting for him, a work with which the Roman artist, illustrator and poet, born in 1982, wanted to “revisit classicism, as an update of the canons, to represent a new aesthetic. That of the new myths.” In fact, the work intends to propose a graphic and semantic juxtaposition between Michelangelo’s David, a symbol of aesthetic and artistic perfection in classicism, and Achille Lauro, a modern idol who, in Marchetti’s vision, expresses the same apical artistic levels.

Giulio Marchetti had already made national headlines when at Christmas 2020 he came out in la Repubblica with Dramazon, a provocative work that conveyed his vision of contemporary Christmas (a truckload of Amazon, or rather “Dramazon,” about to run over Santa Claus). The work represented Marchetti’s debut in digital art and was followed by Modern Heart for Valentine’s Day and Easteria for Easter.

Marchetti turned to the world of digital art after Pandemic, having published six books of poetry and won numerous awards. In particular, his latest publication, Blind Mirrors (2020), earned him first place in the Nabokov Prize and the International Literary Prize City of Sassari. With his art, Marchetti enters the field of social criticism to detect the contradictions of our time. To his credit, among his many works, is a collaboration with Achille Lauro’s producer Boss Doms, centered on the work Relax (which satirically denounces the abuse of psychotropic drugs). The artist says he is ready for new surprises.

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Achille Lauro becomes Michelangelo's David: the work of Giulio Marchetti

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